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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: [feature-request] Support for xpat
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:47:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilu4remslkg.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3sn2bu6u5.fsf@defun.localdomain> (Jesper Harder's message of "Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:21:06 +0200")

Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:

> Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:
>
>> There's one thing I'm missing in Gnus which offered my last newsreader
>> (XNews) and this is support for the xpat command. This command is
>> implemented in most modern newsserver and allows searching for
>> messages with a given pattern in some header.
>
> XPAT support would be nice.  Maybe we should consider creating a unified
> way of searching.  Kai's nnir.el lets you search mail groups -- it would
> be neat if nnir and XPAT searches had the same interface.

Some unified searching with a good "advanced search" query buffer
would be quite useful.  I posted a proposed backend interface for
something like it long time ago, but I think there were some
(solvable?) problems with it.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-26 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-22 14:50 Frank Schmitt
2002-07-22 15:21 ` Jesper Harder
2002-07-22 17:03   ` Kai Großjohann
2002-07-26 12:47   ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2002-07-22 15:51 ` Kai Großjohann

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