Re: How to search inside emails?

[Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>]

In reply to a message sent by asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) 6 days ago: 

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> Sharon writes:
>
>> I know how to search in the titles of saved posts, but how can I
>> search *inside* each and every email please?
>
> M-s in a *Summary* buffer searches through the articles:
>
> ,----
> | M-s runs the command gnus-summary-search-article-forward, which is an
> | interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus-sum.el'.
> | 
> | It is bound to M-s, <menu-bar> <Gnus> <Search articles forward...>.
> | 
> | (gnus-summary-search-article-forward REGEXP &optional BACKWARD)
> | 
> | Search for an article containing REGEXP forward.
> | If BACKWARD, search backward instead.
> `----
>
> For a more "search engine"-like experience, look at nnir.
>
>
Thanks for this Adam, I've finally got it working.

I was using "gnus" from source, which gave me version "Ma Gnus
v0.12" and I could never load "gnus-namazu.el" no matter where I
physically put it. So as I'd already got "namazu" installed from the
debian jessie repos, I commented out the source lines leading to my
git repo of gnus, and then restarted emacs, and ditto gnus. I'm now
running "Gnus v5.13" and I've been able to start namazu off and
index all my emails, and had several preliminary searches. I'll use
it in earnest tomorrow. I've also sorted out why I wasn't able to
reply to emails properly, being unable to have quoted text
showing. So things are back to normal again, hooray! :)

Sharon.
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