From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27920 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bud Rogers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: WAIS back-end? that understands mail? Date: 07 Dec 1999 16:53:59 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87g0xee514.fsf@twocups.sirinet.net> References: <87wvqq74y6.fsf@Thanatos.Shenton.Org> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164859 27091 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:47:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:47:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA09722 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 18:38:06 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAB21081; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 17:20:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 07 Dec 1999 17:20:30 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA26851 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 17:20:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from twocups.sirinet.net (postfix@twocups.sirinet.net [207.3.88.229]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA09529 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 18:19:38 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by twocups.sirinet.net (Postfix, from userid 0) id 03F7DCB52; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 16:53:59 -0600 (CST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Chris Shenton's message of "07 Dec 1999 17:37:37 -0500" Original-Lines: 44 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27920 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27920 Chris Shenton writes: > Since I can never remember which folder I put mail in, I use WAIS to > index my stored mail every night. I can search with the "M-x wais" > function that came with FreeWAIS-sf and it basically works but doesn't > understand it's really mail, rendering it as a flat file. > > I'd really like to be able to is see the results as a *Summary* buffer > and then step through each one, rendering as mail, since that's what > it is. Being able to reply, forward and the like would be a winner. Have a look at Kai Großjohann's nnir.el. I use glimpse rather than wais, but it does both. From Kai's comments: ;; What does it do? Well, it allows you to index your mail using some ;; search engine (freeWAIS-sf and Glimpse are currently supported), ;; then type `G G' in the Group buffer and issue a query to the search ;; engine. You will then get a buffer which shows all articles ;; matching the query, sorted by Retrieval Status Value (score). ;; When looking at the retrieval result (in the Summary buffer) you ;; can type `G T' (aka M-x gnus-summary-nnir-goto-thread RET) on an ;; article. You will be teleported into the group this article came ;; from, showing the thread this article is part of. (See below for ;; restrictions.) Good stuff, Maynard. Recommended. ls6-ftp.cs.uni-dortmund.de:/pub/src/emacs > > Extra points if I could walk through other WAIS archives in a similar > manner, like random saved text files, a WAISified Dictionary, etc. Dunno about that. Kai? -- Bud Rogers