From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/70678 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vegard Vesterheim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: That newfangled IMAP thing... Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:29:24 +0200 Organization: UNINETT. Message-ID: <1sr5h4qpff.fsf@voll.uninett.no> References: <87hbi25214.fsf@uwo.ca> <8739tl4dxk.fsf@dod.no> <1svd6gskep.fsf@voll.uninett.no> <1shbi0sgg9.fsf@voll.uninett.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283956204 15969 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2010 14:30:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 14:30:04 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M19051@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Sep 08 16:30:02 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtLex-0000SE-O8 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:30:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OtLeU-0007bZ-Dn; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:29:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OtLeS-0007bL-LI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:29:28 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OtLeP-0007zL-DT for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:29:28 -0500 Original-Received: from regensburg.uninett.no ([158.38.180.100]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OtLeO-0003WQ-00 for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:29:24 +0200 Original-Received: from voll.uninett.no (voll.uninett.no [IPv6:2001:700:1:0:21a:a0ff:fee1:2782]) by regensburg.uninett.no (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 89FD87049A for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 16:29:24 +0200 (CEST) X-Face: Vl8-zx%G~!/rC5W!BM+T]w:k.[$Zqh. Q'Af|}oZ6JAhaysP"/43eD<|.BoMETII (Steinar Bang's message of "Wed\, 08 Sep 2010 14\:06\:22 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:70678 Archived-At: On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:06:22 +0200 Steinar Bang wrote: > Position the cursor over an nnimap group, and do `G G' and type in a > search string. This will create a temporary group with the matches. Yes, I use this all the time. Unfortunately it is a bit slow, especially if there are many hits. I find that adding a 'SINCE ' clause in the IMAP SEARCH helps speed up things when I want to find recent articles. In fact I have defined a simple function which does this for me, and I have defined the keybinding as 'G g' for this. > > I would have liked to: > - Make the search span both that particular group, as well as its > archive group (which I normally have hidden) You can mark several groups and issue a nnir/imap search for those. > - Make it possible to navigate from a match to the match inside the > actual group, so that I guess that is what gnus-summary-nnir-goto-thread ('G T') is supposed to do, it is documented like this: ;; When looking at the retrieval result (in the Summary buffer) you ;; can type `G T' (aka M-x gnus-summary-nnir-goto-thread RET) on an ;; article. You will be teleported into the group this article came ;; from, showing the thread this article is part of. (See below for ;; restrictions.) - Vegard V -