Re: Help testing gnus-search fixups

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Daniel Jensen <daniel@bigwalter.net> writes:

> On 2021-08-13 at 09:50, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
>> Sorry for the slow response, I was camping...
>
> No worries!
>
>> If you're only using one notmuch index, it's enough to set the global
>> options like `gnus-search-notmuch-remove-prefix'. If you've got two
>> nnmaildir servers each with its own notmuch index, you'll have to
>> specific the different prefixes within the engine configuration:
>>
>> ((nnmaildir "One"
>>    (directory "~/Mail/one/"
>>      (gnus-search-engine gnus-search-notmuch
>>        (remove-prefix "~/Mail/one/"))))
>>  (nnmaildir "Two"
>>    (directory "~/Mail/two/"
>>      (gnus-search-engine gnus-search-notmuch
>>        (remove-prefix "~/Mail/two/")))))
>>
>> Note how the sexps are nested, it's important that the engine-related
>> variables go within the engine configuration sexp.
>
> I had tried something like this before, but could never get it right.
> Actually your example above needed a small change:
>
> ((nnmaildir "One"
>    (directory "~/Mail/one/")
>    (gnus-search-engine gnus-search-notmuch
>      (remove-prefix "~/Mail/one/")))
>  (nnmaildir "Two"
>    (directory "~/Mail/two/")
>    (gnus-search-engine gnus-search-notmuch
>      (remove-prefix "~/Mail/two/"))))
>
> Notice the gnus-search-engine sexps had to move up for it to work. But
> now all is well. Thank you very much!

"Now watch carefully as I do this incorrectly..."

It really is easy to screw up! Glad everything's working now.