Re: Testers wanted: New gnus backend nnselect

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Andrew Cohen <cohen@bu.edu> writes:
>
>> TLDR: Please test the new feature found on the git repository at
>> feature/gnus-select.
>>
>
> First off. TLDR?
>
> Sorry to blunder into something that is well over my head.  But I am
> quite interested in searching inside gnus.
>
> I've haven't attempted using nnir since a number of years ago and have
> forgotten whatever I knew about it then.
>
> I am a long time emacs/gnus user and have used gnus nearly exclusively
> since early `Quassia' gnus. But have never really tried to learn enough
> elisp etc to participate in dev.
>
> Sorry if this next query is well known by everybody:
>
> It is not clear (to me) how I might get this code incorporated into a
> fresh version of emacs-dev (26.X) and try to figure out how to use it.
>
> I normally (since gnus-dev was merged into main emacs-dev) just `git pull'
> on my emacs branch for the newest stuff in gnus.
>
> You mentioned its location on git repo... but I'm not sure of the
> mechanics to get it.
>
> What would I do differently to get to this work in progress the
> discussion is about, feature/gnus-select?

Basically, go into your emacs repo, run "git checkout
feature/gnus-select", then run "make".

Probably you don't want to run "make install", so then from the
top-level dir of the emacs repo run "src/emacs" to start that version of
emacs. That ought to be it...

Happy testing!
Eric