From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58449 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnir.el? Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 19:24:28 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094923526 22424 80.91.229.6 (11 Sep 2004 17:25:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 17:25:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6989@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Sep 11 19:25:10 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C6Bcc-0002ZK-00 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 19:25:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1C6BcJ-00057R-00; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:24:51 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1C6BcF-00057M-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:24:47 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1C6BcF-00086z-EM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:24:47 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (unknown [80.91.229.2]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC14B3A0036 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:24:45 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C6BcC-0005zV-00 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 19:24:44 +0200 Original-Received: from c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se ([217.215.27.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 19:24:44 +0200 Original-Received: from jas by c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 19:24:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0xlSrcwKQBu+Eudc3xxBT0uUkig= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58449 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58449 Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes: > On Thu, Sep 09 2004, Simon Josefsson wrote: > >> I forget, can someone remind me why nnir.el is in contrib/ and not >> lisp/? > > I vaguely remember something about missing or unclear copyright > assignments. But Kai or Christoph should know more. Kai is mentioned in copyright.list, but I also recall some problem with copyright assignments in German. >> I recall discussing how to implement searching The Right Way, but >> nothing came out that. And nnir.el, despite whatever limitations it >> might have, is useful for many people including me. > > One thing that has bitten me was that it requires expanded file names > which makes it harder when using the same configuration on different > accounts (~/Mail may expand to different values). For what variable? Just replace VAR with (expand-file-name VAR) throughout the code. > According to some discussion on emacs-devel, we should remove the > non-free search engines such as glimpse because there are free > alternatives, IIRC. Ah, right, that's a good point. In my partisan view, we should make IMAP the default method, too, since I believe it is the only one search backend that work without additional configuration or external programs. Kai?