Re: Help testing gnus-search fixups

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Alexandr Vityazev <avityazev@posteo.org> writes:

> On 2021-07-30, 15:17 -0300, Joseph Mingrone <jrm@ftfl.ca> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2021-07-25 at 11:17, Alexandr Vityazev <avityazev@posteo.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2021-07-24, 15:16 -0700, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>>
>>>> On 07/23/21 18:52 PM, Alexandr Vityazev wrote:
>>>>> On 2021-07-23, 08:18 -0700, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>>
>>>>>> On 07/23/21 13:12 PM, Alexandr Vityazev wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi!
>>
>>>>>>> GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.24,
>>>>>>> cairo version 1.16.0). Gnus v5.13.
>>
>>>>>>> I tested the new version of gnus-search-indexed-parse-output yesterday
>>>>>>> and the search with notmuch completely fails. gnus-verbose is set to
>>>>>>> 10. press GG and type any search query, with the patch, I get:
>>
>>>>>>>   Doing /home/akagi/.guix-profile/bin/notmuch query on
>>>>>>>   (nnmaildir+posteo:Drafts nnmaildir+posteo:Inbox nnmaildir+posteo:Sent
>>>>>>>   nnmaildir+posteo:Trash nnmaildir+posteo:Notes)...
>>>>>>>   Group nnselect:nnselect-87lf5xus2s.fsf contains no messages
>>
>>>>>> Hi, thanks for the report. Would you mind running your query on the
>>>>>> command line (using the same syntax as gnus-search does, mostly
>>>>>> output=files), and sending me the resulting list of file names
>>>>>> (off-list, if you prefer). I'll try to find out why the parsing process
>>>>>> is failing.
>>
>>
>>>>> notmuch search --output=files test
>>
>>
>>
>>>>> in *Group* GG with "test" query, I get:
>>
>>>>>    Doing /home/akagi/.guix-profile/bin/notmuch query on
>>>>>    (nnmaildir+posteo:Drafts nnmaildir+posteo:Inbox nnmaildir+posteo:Sent
>>>>>    nnmaildir+posteo:Trash nnmaildir+posteo:Notes nnmaildir+posteo:Junk)...
>>>>>    Group nnselect:nnselect-87czr8uasp.fsf contains no messages
>>
>>>> Hmm, I'm not able to reproduce this: it's a little difficult since I
>>>> don't actually have the files on my machine, but as far as I can tell
>>>> the search results are being parsed correctly. Are you familiar with
>>>> edebug at all? Is there any chance I could get you to step through the
>>>> function and see where things are going off?
>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Eric
>>
>>
>>> I tested gnus-search-indexed-parse-output with edebug and found where
>>> something is going on. The attached patch fixes the issue for me.
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Alexandr, I applied this patch against the latest commit to master at
>> the time of writing (55a9c17cef) and I still get no search results when
>> there should be.  With `gnus-verbose' and `gnus-verbose-backends', I
>> just see
>>
>> Retrieving newsgroup: nnselect:nnselect-86im0r65gy.fsf...
>> Doing notmuch query on (test)...
>> Group nnselect:nnselect-86im0r65gy.fsf contains no messages
>>
>> in *Messages*.
>>
>> My search setup is simple.  I just have
>>
>> '((nnimap . imap) (nntp . gmane) (nnml . notmuch)) as the value of
>> `gnus-search-default-engines'.
>>
>> The only way I can get searching working again is to revert
>> gnus-search.el to 0897ade8f9.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>
> Hi, Joseph!
>
> All my methods are set in gnus-secondary-select-methods. Most likely the
> patch solves the problem only with these settings. I did not research
> whether it will work with other settings. To solve the problem with the
> search it is necessary to conduct a more complete analysis, I still
> cannot give an answer.

I'm getting to it! I just need to find a moment to sit down and set up
some dummy data and test the various possible configurations. It
shouldn't be to hard to unilaterally force prefixed group names where
that's needed, and force unprefixed names elsewhere, I just need to
find the time. I'd like to get this fixed once and for all.