Re: New "gnus-search" syntax and interface

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

"Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for this, it looks very promising.
>
> I'm trying it, and seems to be working, but with some unexpected
> behaviour.  More concretely, if i put my cursor on a topic and try G G,
> i don't always find results that are otherwise found when G G-ing on one
> of its groups.

Please do give more details about this if you notice anything. The code
for collecting groups is relatively simple, and I don't quite see how
the results could be different. If you're willing to experiment, you
could run this code snippet while marking groups, or putting point on
topic headings, and see if anything looks different:

(seq-group-by
 (lambda (elt) (gnus-group-server elt))
 (or gnus-group-marked
     (if (gnus-group-group-name)
	 (list (gnus-group-group-name))
       (cdr
	(assoc (gnus-group-topic-name) gnus-topic-alist)))))

> Also, sometimes some of my ephemeral queries seem to get "stick", and
> they are repeated over and over every time i do 'g' to refresh my group,
> even though i cannot see any group (it was ephemeral).

Huh, that's odd. How do you know the queries are repeated if the group's
gone?

These issues both sound like they might be more of an nnselect thing
than a gnus-search thing -- did you notice any behavior like this after
the nnselect update (landed September 5 in ecfc13e), but before the
gnus-search update?

It's also possible that 206cff8 might have thrown something off, since
that commit also touches code in this area.

Thanks,
Eric