Re: [RFC] Gnus generalized search, part II

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Wednesday, 26 Apr 2017 at 15:51, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> Andrew Cohen <cohen@bu.edu> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>> (Who is beginning to think that you and I are the only two who will ever
>>> use this new stuff).
>>
>> I was starting to think the same thing! Glad to see others chiming in.
>
> I know that I would likely use this and would definitely do so if the
> generalised search interface included off-line use with the
> agent...  not sure if that is planned or even possible but thought I
> would mention it!

Andy will know about any interaction between nnselect and the agent, but
the search engines are pretty discrete from the rest of Gnus, and won't
know about plugged/connected status. If your indexes are local (mairix,
notmuch, namazu, local IMAP, etc) everything will work fine. If the
indexes are remote (a remote IMAP server, for instance), then the search
would time out. Ideally, if Gnus is unplugged, it would refuse to search
remote servers at all. I don't actually know what happens right now.