Hi Eric,

Thanks for the reply.

> I didn't see this on the list, but am replying to the list...

Yes - I seem to have done something wrong with the post. Hopefully I've
fixed it this time.

> My understanding is, Andy had a certain window of time where he was
> able to work on the nnselect stuff, and that window closed before we
> were able to get anything pushed. That's a bummer, because I think the
> changes are pretty solid -- there were a couple of potential features
> that didn't get implemented, but I haven't encountered any bugs,
> either.

>> Maybe someone can briefly explain how to resolve the
>> incompatibilities?  Or maybe there is an updated way to get these
>> features?

Well, after writing, I meanwhile got stubborn and did manage to get the
"origin/scratch/gnus-search" version merged after cloning an emacs
image. (The situation arose because I needed to install on a new
machine...)

There was one issue I encountered using gnus-search and notmuch as
search engine (certain kinds of searches failed with an error message
which essentially said "(if thread ....)" is not a string"). I'm
attaching a patch (inclusion of a comma that seems to have been missing)
which fixes this trouble for me.

(Actually, I'm pretty sure I found this typo/glitch in June, fixed it,
and then forgot that I had discovered it. Should have reported it then;
sorry!)

> Then that could sit for a while, and in the meantime I would keep
> scratch/gnus-search up to date with master. When it looked like it was
> mature enough, I'd merge to master as well.

> I think we've got Lars' blessing on all this, so we should be good to
> go. Andy, if you're there -- what do you think about just taking the
> plunge? I can be available to put out fires, if necessary.

Well, I like the work; thanks! - I'm looking forward to its
inclusion...!

See below for the patch.

best,
george