Re: New "gnus-search" syntax and interface

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

yoctocell <yoctocell@disroot.org> writes:

> On 17 December 2020 20:30, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>
>> Actually, I have a suspicion of what's going on here: the nils mean that
>> nnmaildir code is unable to convert the maildir file names to article
>> numbers, and I think it's unable to do that because it is getting
>> confused about which nnmaildir backend is "current". Would you eval the
>> following function, and let me know if it lets you search back and forth
>> between backends without error?
>>
>> And just to really push our luck, would you try marking groups from both
>> backends and searching them at the same time?
>
> After evaluting the function searching works when switching groups, but
> it doesn't work when I mark multiple groups and search across them. I
> get the same error where it's trying to compare two nils.

Well this is frustrating. I've pushed the partial change that fixes
switching between servers, but am still stumped as to why searching two
servers doesn't work -- it's the same code. I'll need to find a moment
to set up a couple fake maildir installations locally and index them,
and hopefully reproduce. In the meantime, these changes should get you
mostly back in business.