Re: search engine for virtual group?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

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

> Hello Eric,
>
> On Tuesday,  1 Feb 2022 at 08:35, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> First of all I don't think it will ever work with nnvirtual, as
>> there's no integration of search and the nnvirtual backend at
>> all.
>
> I was afraid this would be the case.  Thank you for confirming.
>
>> You'll have to use the nnselect backend, which can do everything that
>> nnvirtual can do. 
>
> I did try this back when you released nnselect 

(FTR that was Andy Cohen's work, not mine)

> but couldn't achieve the same functionality. I don't completely
> remember the details but I think it was that when the groups (that
> were brought together into a single nnselect group) were refreshed,
> i.e. fetching new mail, the virtual group did not get refreshed. Does
> this make sense?

That does make sense, and it's something to think about and possibly
address. So you had to M-g on the nnselect group in particular to get it
to refresh?

I don't think nnvirtual is going anywhere, possibly ever, so if you've
got a setup that works you should stick with it. But I'd like to get
the nnselect stuff as usable as possible, because in the end it's a more
versatile tool.

> In any case, not being able to search the virtual group is not a deal
> breaker: I've put all the constituent groups into their own topic and I
> can simply search the topic!

That's a good solution, I actually had forgotten you could do that.