* Searching mail folders?
@ 1998-01-12 17:15 Simon Josefsson
1998-01-12 18:38 ` Kai Grossjohann
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From: Simon Josefsson @ 1998-01-12 17:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
After using grep to search through my mail folders for some months,
I've started using Glimpse (<URL:http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/>).
I think it's very neat. Even neater would be to interface it somehow
with Gnus.
A new virtual group like nnweb, only it searches through my local
mail-folders?
Even if one doesn't use Glimpse (I don't know if, some search-utility
(group-summary-search-* isn't enough) in Gnus feels essential in a
news/mail-reader -- at least to me, but I may be brain-washed by
fidonet technology...
Good? Bad? Ugly?
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* Re: Searching mail folders?
1998-01-12 17:15 Searching mail folders? Simon Josefsson
@ 1998-01-12 18:38 ` Kai Grossjohann
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Kai Grossjohann @ 1998-01-12 18:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
>>>>> On 12 Jan 1998, Simon Josefsson said:
Simon> After using grep to search through my mail folders for some
Simon> months, I've started using Glimpse
Simon> (<URL:http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/>). I think it's very
Simon> neat. Even neater would be to interface it somehow with Gnus.
Here's gnus-glimpse.el which almost doesn't work at all but is useful
to me nevertheless. Feel free to improve on it. I wish I could get
around to looking at nnweb.el to see how things ought to work!
I index my whole home dir with a cron job every night.
kai
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;; gnus-glimpse.el -- search current group with glimpse
;; University of Dortmund, Information Retrieval Group, CS Dept.
;; RCS Status : $Id$
;; Author : Kai Grossjohann
;; Created On : Tue May 20 19:08:10 1997
;; Last Modified By:
;; Last Modified On:
;; Update Count : 0
;; Status : Unknown, Use with caution!
(require 'gnus-sum)
(defvar gnus-glimpse-program
"/app/sun4_55/unido-inf/glimpse/default/bin/glimpse"
"Path to glimpse program to run.")
(defvar gnus-glimpse-options "-W -y -l"
"Default options to pass to glimpse.")
(defvar gnus-glimpse-home-option-function nil
"You can set this to a function which should return a glimpse option.
This can be used for per-group glimpse index files. Just set this to
a function that returns -H <path.to.index>, for instance.
The function `gnus-glimpse-home-option-per-group' is provided as an
example.")
(defun gnus-glimpse-group-to-directory (group)
"Return directory name for this group."
(string-match "^nnml:\\(.*\\)$" group)
(expand-file-name
(concat nnml-directory
(gnus-newsgroup-directory-form
(substring group (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))))))
(defun gnus-glimpse-group-option ()
"Return the string used as the group option for glimpse."
(let ((s (gnus-glimpse-group-to-directory gnus-newsgroup-name)))
(string-match (expand-file-name "~/") s)
(concat "-F '" (replace-match "" nil nil s 0)
"/[0-9]'")))
(defun gnus-glimpse-home-option-per-group ()
"Returns an option for Glimpse to search its index files in the
directory of the group. Can be used as a value for
`gnus-glimpse-home-option-function'."
(let ((s (gnus-glimpse-group-to-directory gnus-newsgroup-name)))
(concat "-H '" s "'")))
(defun gnus-glimpse-home-option ()
"If `gnus-glimpse-home-option-function' is set, call the function specified.
Otherwise, return an empty string."
(if gnus-glimpse-home-option-function
(apply gnus-glimpse-home-option-function nil)
""))
(defun gnus-summary-glimpse (glimpse-opt)
(interactive "sGlimpse options: ")
(let ((cmd (concat gnus-glimpse-program " "
gnus-glimpse-options " "
(gnus-glimpse-group-option) " "
(gnus-glimpse-home-option) " "
glimpse-opt))
;; gnus-newsgroup-name must be read in the summary buffer. So
;; we do it here which is before switching to the glimpse
;; output buffer.
(newsgroup-name gnus-newsgroup-name)
(gnus-glimpse-articles nil)
(num-articles nil)
(cur-article 1))
(save-excursion
;; Can't read gnus-newsgroup-name after the following line.
(set-buffer (get-buffer-create " *glimpse output*"))
(erase-buffer)
(message "Running %s..." cmd) (sit-for 0)
(shell-command cmd t)
(message "Running %s...done" cmd) (sit-for 0)
(goto-char (point-min))
(while (re-search-forward
(concat "^" (gnus-glimpse-group-to-directory newsgroup-name)
"/\\([0-9]*\\)$")
nil t nil)
(replace-match "\\1" nil nil))
(sort-numeric-fields 1 (point-min) (point-max))
(goto-char (point-min))
(insert "(setq gnus-glimpse-articles '(\n")
(goto-char (point-max))
(insert "))")
(eval-current-buffer)
)
(setq num-articles (length gnus-glimpse-articles))
(message "Found %d articles." num-articles) (sit-for 0)
(while gnus-glimpse-articles
(setq cur-article (1+ cur-article))
(gnus-summary-goto-subject (pop gnus-glimpse-articles) t t))
(sit-for 0)))
(define-key gnus-summary-goto-map "G" 'gnus-summary-glimpse)
(provide 'gnus-glimpse)
;; gnus-glimpse.el ends here
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