Multi-article Isearch in Gnus (was: Conflict about M-s)

Multi-article Isearch in Gnus (was: Conflict about M-s)

[Juri Linkov]

[Cc'd ding@gnus.org]

> 1. Gnus binds `M-s' to `gnus-summary-search-article-forward'.

In order to compensate the need to change the key binding `M-s' in Gnus that
now conflicts with the global prefix key `M-s' in Emacs 23, I implemented
support for multi-article Isearch.  This means that after installing the
following small patch, typing `C-s' in the *Article* buffer will switch
to the next article with more search hits when Isearch finds no more
search results in the current article.  This works like the current
non-incremental command `M-s', but like `C-s' it searches incrementally.
Another way to run it is to type `s' in the *Summary* buffer that
will start Isearch in the *Article* buffer with multi-article support.
It has no effect on versions other than Emacs 23.

Index: lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el,v
retrieving revision 1.172
diff -u -r1.172 gnus-art.el
--- lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el	4 Dec 2008 10:53:19 -0000	1.172
+++ lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el	28 Dec 2008 23:55:05 -0000
@@ -4366,6 +4366,9 @@
   ;; Prevent Emacs 22 from displaying non-break space with `nobreak-space'
   ;; face.
   (set (make-local-variable 'nobreak-char-display) nil)
+  ;; For multi-article Isearch in Emacs 23.
+  (set (make-local-variable 'multi-isearch-next-buffer-function)
+       'gnus-article-isearch-next-buffer)
   (setq cursor-in-non-selected-windows nil)
   (setq truncate-lines gnus-article-truncate-lines)
   (gnus-set-default-directory)
@@ -6758,6 +6761,48 @@
 			    (point))
 	  (set-buffer buf))))))
 
+
+(defun gnus-article-isearch-next-buffer (&optional buffer wrap)
+  "Find and return the next article buffer for multi-article Isearch.
+`gnus-select-article-hook' is not called during the search."
+  ;; We have to require this here to make sure that the following
+  ;; dynamic binding isn't shadowed by autoloading.
+  (require 'gnus-async)
+  (require 'gnus-art)
+  (let ((gnus-select-article-hook nil)	;Disable hook.
+	(gnus-article-prepare-hook nil)
+	(gnus-mark-article-hook nil)	;Inhibit marking as read.
+	(gnus-use-article-prefetch nil)
+	(gnus-xmas-force-redisplay nil)	;Inhibit XEmacs redisplay.
+	(gnus-use-trees nil)		;Inhibit updating tree buffer.
+	(gnus-visual nil)
+	(gnus-keep-backlog nil)
+	(gnus-break-pages nil)
+	(gnus-summary-display-arrow nil)
+	(gnus-updated-mode-lines nil)
+	(gnus-auto-center-summary nil)
+	(gnus-display-mime-function nil)
+	(found 'not))
+    (with-current-buffer gnus-summary-buffer
+      (if wrap
+	  (goto-char (if isearch-forward (point-min) (point-max)))
+	(while (eq found 'not)
+	  (if (not (if isearch-forward
+		       (gnus-summary-find-next)
+		     (gnus-summary-find-prev)))
+	      ;; No more articles.
+	      (setq found nil)
+	    ;; Select the next article and adjust point.
+	    (unless (gnus-summary-article-sparse-p
+		     (gnus-summary-article-number))
+	      (setq found t)))))
+      (gnus-summary-select-article)
+      (pop-to-buffer gnus-article-buffer)
+      (widen)
+      ;; Return nil when no more articles.
+      (and found (current-buffer)))))
+
+
 ;;;
 ;;; Article editing
 ;;;

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

Re: Multi-article Isearch in Gnus

[jidanni]

JL> type `s' in the *Summary* buffer that will start Isearch in the
JL> *Article* buffer

BTW, I find that is one of the most confusing parts of gnus. Especially
when the search ends, the cursor jumps back to the *Summary* buffer.
I sort of wish it was all not invented.