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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.