Re: search for mark over Groups topic not working

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

"Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao@gnu.org> writes:

> so i don't know why it happens, but the problem seems to be in the
> gnus-search-run-search method for imap servers.  specifically, this
> snippet translating the query spec to a query string:
>
>       (setq q-string
> 	    (gnus-search-make-query-string engine query))
>
>
> - when i run the query mark:! with point at a subtopic, this code in that
>   method sets q-string to "FLAGGED", and things work.
> - when i run the query mark:! with point at Gnus, the code above sets
>   q-string to "KEYWORD flag" (and, naturally, no results are found).
>
> the reason for that is that, in the first case, query is
>
>   ((parsed-query (mark . flag)) (query . mark:!) (raw))
>
> while, in the second case, it is
>    
>   ((parsed-query (keyword . flag)) (query . mark:!) (raw))
>
> so it seems that the reader of the query, or its translator to a sexp
> down the line, is sensitive to where in the Groups buffer point is.

This is melting my brain. I can't reproduce this, and don't see how it's
even possible. It seems to be the query parsing process that's going
wrong, but that happens before the code even looks at which groups are
being searched, and parsing simply happens to a string: it doesn't vary
depending on the servers being searched, much less on where point is
when you start the search.

Neither does there seem to be any code that could transform "mark" ->
'keyword!

I might need to ask you to up your debugging skills... :)