From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/87509 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Testers wanted: New gnus backend nnselect Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 11:24:44 -0700 Message-ID: <87k265909f.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87pog233uy.fsf@hanan> <86shkt7s8e.fsf@local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1493317517 28831 195.159.176.226 (27 Apr 2017 18:25:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 18:25:17 +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+m35724@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Apr 27 20:25:14 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 1d3o6J-0007Jk-Tu for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:25:12 +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 dc683f73-2b76-11e7-b087-b499baabecb2; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 18:25:16 +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 1d3o6M-0007IS-DM; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:25:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1d3o6K-0007Hq-90 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:25:12 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1d3o6I-0000Vk-VI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:25:12 -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 1d3o6H-0004UJ-JV for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:25:09 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d3o6A-00078p-M5 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:25:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:f+QPr1wqm723eulbvcAtHN8rwiU= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:87509 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: > Andrew Cohen 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