Re: search for mark over Groups topic not working

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

"Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao@gnu.org> writes:

> so i don't know why it happens, but the problem seems to be in the
> gnus-search-run-search method for imap servers.  specifically, this
> snippet translating the query spec to a query string:
>
>       (setq q-string
> 	    (gnus-search-make-query-string engine query))
>
>
> - when i run the query mark:! with point at a subtopic, this code in that
>   method sets q-string to "FLAGGED", and things work.
> - when i run the query mark:! with point at Gnus, the code above sets
>   q-string to "KEYWORD flag" (and, naturally, no results are found).
>
> the reason for that is that, in the first case, query is
>
>   ((parsed-query (mark . flag)) (query . mark:!) (raw))
>
> while, in the second case, it is
>    
>   ((parsed-query (keyword . flag)) (query . mark:!) (raw))
>
> so it seems that the reader of the query, or its translator to a sexp
> down the line, is sensitive to where in the Groups buffer point is.

Whoa, that really shouldn't be the case! Thanks for doing all this
digging, I will have a look this weekend and figure out why it would be
doing that.