Re: New "gnus-search" syntax and interface

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

On November 4, 2020 11:39:21 AM PST, Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> wrote:
>Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>>>> (f:bob or f:jane) -t:sam sin:2w su:"sam's surprise party"
>>>
>>>
>>> This is real convenience when you have lots of email
>>> servers/groups. Thanks for this stuff. I have already played with it
>>> for an hour or so.
>>
>> Glad it's useful! It's particularly nice with nnselect's persistent
>> search groups, because the queries are re-parsed every time the group
>> is updated, meaning that a relative date query like "since:5d" will
>> always indicate the most recent five days.
>>
>
>Need to read about this a bit. Are all the commands that are available
>in normal summary buffer, available in nnselect persistent search
>groups?

That's right. In the Group buffer, "G G" makes an ephemeral search group, "G g" makes a permanent one. If you make an ephemeral group, enter it, and decide you want to make it permanent after the fact, you can do so with "C-c C-p".

>If yes then this could be one use case -> Instead of spliting, we can
>use nnselect and save on Gnus startup time. I don't know. I have to
>read
>more.

Andy Cohen, who wrote nnselect, says that it has totally changed how he uses Gnus, for exactly this reason. Permanent search groups are more flexible than splitting.
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