Re: Help testing gnus-search fixups

[Alexandr Vityazev <avityazev@posteo.org>]

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.

-- 
Best regards,
Alexandr Vityazev