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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: any partial or rudamentary documentation of new nnselect work somewhere?
Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 11:30:12 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3ty23wb.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86shk7tvtw.fsf@local.lan>

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Thinking about it further, I think automatically translating regexps
>> into "grep:" might be going overboard, and would introduce unnecessary
>> complications. But providing the grep functionality itself still sounds
>> like a good idea.
>
> Anything that functions grep like for that second pass would really be
> great.
>
> I have no idea what coding that would look like, but hope it is not
> too daunting or something that will bog things down.

No, it shouldn't be too difficult. The guts of the code already exist in
the find-grep engine, which I kind of doubt anyone's using, but which
can be refactored to use this same mechanism.




      reply	other threads:[~2017-05-15  3:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-06 22:39 Harry Putnam
2017-05-07  0:10 ` Andrew Cohen
2017-05-10 20:49   ` Harry Putnam
2017-05-11  0:01     ` Andrew Cohen
2017-05-11 13:07       ` Harry Putnam
2017-05-12  1:18         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-05-13 13:44           ` Harry Putnam
2017-05-14  2:48             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-05-14 13:21               ` Harry Putnam
2017-05-14 13:24               ` Harry Putnam
2017-05-15  3:30                 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]

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