From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 2008 invoked from network); 4 Jun 2021 16:58:52 -0000 Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu (129.7.128.32) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 4 Jun 2021 16:58:52 -0000 Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1lpD9m-00CxeB-6p for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2021 11:58:50 -0500 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1lpD9l-000ks7-QF for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2021 11:58:49 -0500 Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1lpD9j-000krx-I3 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 04 Jun 2021 11:58:47 -0500 Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1lpD9f-00BV7U-83 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 04 Jun 2021 11:58:47 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:Mime-Version:References:Message-ID:Date:Subject: From:To:Sender:Reply-To:Cc:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:In-Reply-To:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=XelWsMSJJ55NHcz7q0vaDfF0JFzgwREcIqphSSIOkjg=; b=u5zH5z9XOduqDiBPKRttmoUyrt +pHWZDcgXi9V4XAXXgoDxiSdAAwGYXXkGph1Ec8VhH7kKeoa2bI7xkuqXXEIPoqc2dtTUI4r0sfiX qcAuM8dEZM2xBwAh93DZe8Uy0OVCwB9qPNriA360a1zJPmJxQk5QxrZqvcnh79ioKwvY=; Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lpD9W-00084s-EE for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2021 18:58:38 +0200 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lpD9V-0003wn-Iz for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2021 18:58:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: ding@gnus.org From: Eric Abrahamsen Subject: Re: search for mark over Groups topic not working Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2021 09:58:25 -0700 Message-ID: <87sg1xa7ny.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87h7j22iqx.fsf@gnus.jao.io> <87czt2pzcr.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <875yyu4u0p.fsf@gnus.jao.io> <874keed4fi.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87wnrabpg0.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <871r9i32qb.fsf@gnus.jao.io> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nKHkCBdMqKfl6BqT6Pmiq2Xi0CA= List-ID: Precedence: bulk "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" 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.