Re: [RFC] Gnus generalized search, part II

[Andrew Cohen <cohen@bu.edu>]

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

    Eric> On Wednesday, 26 Apr 2017 at 15:51, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
    >> Andrew Cohen <cohen@bu.edu> writes:

    Eric> [...]

    >>> (Who is beginning to think that you and I are the only two who
    >>> will ever use this new stuff).
    >> 
    >> I was starting to think the same thing! Glad to see others
    >> chiming in.

    Eric> I know that I would likely use this and would definitely do so
    Eric> if the generalised search interface included off-line use with
    Eric> the agent...  not sure if that is planned or even possible but
    Eric> thought I would mention it!


It should work, but its totally untested (I don't use the agent). The
nnselect backend (which is independent of searching) should act like any
backend and use the agent as appropriate (although since it hasn't been
tested it is probably buggy). The searching part should behave as (the
other) Eric indicated: searches in local indices should work fine, and
searches that require a network connection should signal an error.


It would be helpful if you could checkout feature/gnus-select and see
what happens :)

Best,
Andy