Re: Create a group from a list of message-ids

[Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com>]

On 13-11-25 16:26 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> On 11/25/13 21:08 PM, Alexander Baier wrote:

[...]

>> This sounds very nice! You mention notmuch comes with its own
>> MUA. Although this might be usefull in a lot of situations, I am looking
>> for something that can integrate with gnus. This means I would like to
>> have something, that displays the search results as a group in gnus that
>> I can act upon like the other nnir backends. A search through the (gnus-)
>> manual didn't turn up anything about notmuch as a nnir backend. Is this
>> just something missing from the manual, or does a nnir notmuch backend
>> simply not exist?
>>
>> If there is no notmuch backend, how do you integrate notmuch into to
>> gnus? Or do you just use it outside gnus?
>
> It doesn't plug in to nnir

Actually I think it might just do. I just looked through the code of
nnir.el and found an nnir implementation for notmuch. I did not yet have
time to try it out, but will do so as soon as I have some free time.

>, it has its own way of displaying search
> results (hence my statement that it's a bit of a MUA unto itself). If
> you're just looking to read/reply to messages, or save attachments, it
> works great. If you were hoping to do something else with the message,
> you'll want to use the "warp to original" snippet from here:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NotMuch

I think this warp feature will actually be something that should meet
my most common needs. This will be a nice fallback if the nnir backend
turn out to be somewhat faulty.

> It also comes with its own tagging structure and all kinds of stuff I
> don't use. The superfluity bugs me a little, but the searching is nice
> enough that it doesn't matter. A nnir plugin for notmuch might actually
> be nice.
>
> Give it a shot!
>

[...]

Regards,
-- 
Alexander Baier