Re: emacs 28 search not working with nnml

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Thomas Alexander Gerds <grb615@ku.dk> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Thomas Alexander Gerds <grb615@ku.dk> writes:
>>
>>> Eric(1): thank you so much, this helped and solved my problem!
>>> Eric(2): you are right: the hack is not needed and my search functions work
>>>          smoothly without it. not sure what remaining bug there might
>>>          be,
>>
>> The remaining bug is subtler: if you search a group whose name is a
>> substring of a different group, the code will also attempt to return
>> results from that other group, which will fail.
>
> aah. haha, and I thought it was a neat feature that in addition to
> nnml:research the search was also applied to nnml:research.old

No, sorry, that's a bug :) But you can certainly use a mark-by-regexp
command to mark all your "*research*" groups and then search them at
once! Only fourteen more keystrokes.

>>
>>> but you may want to consider to change the default value here for
>>> people like me who use "mail" instead of "Mail":
>>
>> Wait, which default value are you referring to here? `gnus-directory'?
>
> no the default value of gnus-search-notmuch-remove-prefix. I have
> forgotten if there also is a variable that has a default value equal to
> "~/Mail". it seems that gnus-directory defaults to "~/News".

Oh, I see. That's just the way that's always been, it's not something I
set. It's hard to imagine any default value that would actually be of
use -- I imagine everyone's got something slightly different.