From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/87639 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: status of nnselect and gnus-search Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:56:19 -0700 Message-ID: <87k2244yfw.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <878tlybmdd.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87pof9tw0g.fsf@hanan> <87inl1f0ud.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <877f1gcmr4.fsf@hanan> <82bmnhkg75.fsf_-_@noether> <87shgt66ax.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <82h8x91tyw.fsf@noether> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502812651 7385 195.159.176.226 (15 Aug 2017 15:57:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:57:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m35853@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Aug 15 17:57:26 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from mxfilter-048035.atla03.us.yomura.com ([107.189.48.35]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dheDd-0001YN-HN for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:57:25 +0200 X-Yomura-MXScrub: 1.0 Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu (unknown [129.7.128.208]) by mxfilter-048035.atla03.us.yomura.com (Halon) with ESMTPS id 70bf54cb-81d2-11e7-ad93-b499baabecb2; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:57:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1dheD1-0007yg-6j; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:56:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1dheCx-0007y3-9b for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:56:43 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1dheCw-0006bt-6k for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:56:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1dheCu-0007fa-Oo for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:56:40 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dheCf-0006qB-Su for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:56:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 53 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:6B3HXssD5A2ful+1gtz+ziOns94= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:87639 Archived-At: George McNinch writes: > Hi Eric, > > Thanks for the reply. > >> I didn't see this on the list, but am replying to the list... > > Yes - I seem to have done something wrong with the post. Hopefully I've > fixed it this time. > >> My understanding is, Andy had a certain window of time where he was >> able to work on the nnselect stuff, and that window closed before we >> were able to get anything pushed. That's a bummer, because I think the >> changes are pretty solid -- there were a couple of potential features >> that didn't get implemented, but I haven't encountered any bugs, >> either. > >>> Maybe someone can briefly explain how to resolve the >>> incompatibilities? Or maybe there is an updated way to get these >>> features? > > Well, after writing, I meanwhile got stubborn and did manage to get the > "origin/scratch/gnus-search" version merged after cloning an emacs > image. (The situation arose because I needed to install on a new > machine...) > > There was one issue I encountered using gnus-search and notmuch as > search engine (certain kinds of searches failed with an error message > which essentially said "(if thread ....)" is not a string"). I'm > attaching a patch (inclusion of a comma that seems to have been missing) > which fixes this trouble for me. > > (Actually, I'm pretty sure I found this typo/glitch in June, fixed it, > and then forgot that I had discovered it. Should have reported it then; > sorry!) Thanks for this! I've made the change in the Emacs scratch branch. >> Then that could sit for a while, and in the meantime I would keep >> scratch/gnus-search up to date with master. When it looked like it was >> mature enough, I'd merge to master as well. > >> I think we've got Lars' blessing on all this, so we should be good to >> go. Andy, if you're there -- what do you think about just taking the >> plunge? I can be available to put out fires, if necessary. > > Well, I like the work; thanks! - I'm looking forward to its > inclusion...! Me too :) Eric