From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78826 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: intelligent way to search a newsgroup Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 10:17:54 -0700 Message-ID: <87boz3288t.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> References: <87vcxe2av5.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> <87wrhsw39f.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305479933 17585 80.91.229.12 (15 May 2011 17:18:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 17:18:53 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27126@lists.math.uh.edu Sun May 15 19:18:49 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QLexs-0008TN-IF for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 15 May 2011 19:18:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QLexd-0005X4-15; Sun, 15 May 2011 12:18:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QLexb-0005Ws-Ch for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 15 May 2011 12:18:31 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QLexa-0004TJ-BS for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 15 May 2011 12:18:31 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QLexY-00038o-Ux for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 15 May 2011 19:18:28 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QLexY-0008M2-LG for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 15 May 2011 19:18:28 +0200 Original-Received: from 70.67.160.177 ([70.67.160.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 May 2011 19:18:28 +0200 Original-Received: from prad by 70.67.160.177 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 May 2011 19:18:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.67.160.177 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6abKE+PrB6YO9eM93h1kwjbRanw= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78826 Archived-At: Reiner Steib writes: > On Sat, May 14 2011, prad wrote: > >> i want to search a newsgroup by keyword. > > I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve. What is your goal? > it is to search a gnus group by keyword. so say i want to find all articles in this group referring to how to search for articles, it says i should do this: G w ~g gmane.emacs.gnus.general search though i found this works too G w group:gmane.emacs.gnus.general search i was just wondering what techniques people use other than going to google or the gmane search: http://search.gmane.org/ (which is pretty fast admittedly!) nothing more "sinister" than that as richard says. :D >> http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/gnus_28.html > > Why do you consult an outdate web age instead of the manual that comes > with Gnus? > i didn't realize it was outdated - just picked it up from a google search. i should get used to accessing the proper manual instead. thx. -- in friendship, prad