Re: New "gnus-search" syntax and interface

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

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

> On Wed, Nov 18 2020, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
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>> No, that's perfect, I'm trying to make completely sure I understand
>> what's going on here. The original nnir-run-* functions all did pretty
>> much the same thing but with slightly different code, and in combining
>> all those functions I didn't get everything exactly in place.
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>> The original notmuch code used the GROUPS parameter to build a "--path"
>> option for the notmuch call, but even if I re-instate that, we'll still
>> want this filter here for the other engines.
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> As an aside, I cannot find --path in notmuch search man page, but
> something that would speed things up considerably for some cases would
> be to append to the generated notmuch query "folder:/<regexp>/"
> (mandatory /'s, to say you're looking for a regexp, not a literal).  But
> that won't fix the problem, either.

Oops, I meant path:, not --path. Looks like there's both path: and
folder:. In theory I would like to support this, as doing filtering will
be faster in notmuch than in Gnus, but it also looks like there are a
lot of possible different configurations we'd need to accommodate.

>> Would you try this version of the function? It should just permit any
>> path separator when checking for group name matches.
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> It works for me (and saves me having to define my own engine, so it's
> nice!).

It should be basic functionality! Thanks for testing.

Eric