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From: Andrew Cohen <acohen@ust.hk>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: nnvirtual groups and article warping
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2022 21:04:10 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bkyjw7ud.fsf@ust.hk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735jv9rf3.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>

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

    ESF> On Friday,  4 Mar 2022 at 07:15, Andrew Cohen wrote:
    >> Now that nnselect does everything a regular backend does, there
    >> shouldn't be much use for warping.
    ESF> [...]
    >> But I am curious what the use case is?  nnvirtual already does
    >> (some) propagation back to the originating groups.

    ESF> The one reason I use warping is to then be able to ask for the
    ESF> thread of messages for the given message.  I.e. I often do "A
    ESF> W" followed by "A T".  Doing this within nnvirtual (or
    ESF> nnselect) groups does not do anything.

That is a bug (at least for nnselect). I use this constantly in nnselect
and it works fine. We should try to track this down; if I had to guess
it has something to do with the search engine you are using---I can't
recall but think it is notmuch?

Best,
Andy


-- 
Andrew Cohen



  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-06 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-03 16:54 Eric S Fraga
2022-03-03 19:38 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-03-03 23:15   ` Andrew Cohen
2022-03-04 17:28     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-03-05  3:02       ` Andrew Cohen
2022-03-05  6:49         ` Andrew Cohen
2022-03-06 12:49     ` Eric S Fraga
2022-03-06 13:04       ` Andrew Cohen [this message]
2022-03-07 15:35         ` Eric S Fraga
2022-03-07 23:07           ` Andrew Cohen
2022-03-08  8:59             ` Eric S Fraga
2022-03-06 13:11       ` Andrew Cohen
2022-03-04  8:01   ` Eric S Fraga
2022-03-04 15:45     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-03-04 15:56       ` Eric S Fraga
2022-03-04 17:16         ` Eric Abrahamsen

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