From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86541 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Schmitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: searching local mail stores Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 10:26:13 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87h9iwo8e6.fsf@gmail.com> <87twmwxler.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <87si2gx8lq.fsf@gmail.com> <8737ufyi9y.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <87d1tjkzw3.fsf@jnanam.net> <87lh87c9va.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87r3hwn6mf.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451986021 7727 80.91.229.3 (5 Jan 2016 09:27:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 09:27:01 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34768@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jan 05 10:26:49 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aGNt8-0005sp-0O for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 10:26:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aGNsx-0000dh-AH; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:26:35 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aGNso-0000dG-CT for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:26:26 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aGNsk-0003Za-Tz for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:26:25 -0600 Original-Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.83]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aGNsj-0007lG-EO for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 10:26:21 +0100 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.20,524,1444687200"; d="asc'?scan'208";a="195636978" Original-Received: from charm-ecran.irisa.fr ([131.254.101.83]) by mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES128-GCM-SHA256; 05 Jan 2016 10:26:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Rainer M. Krug's message of "Tue, 05 Jan 2016 09:38:42 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) X-Spam-Score: -7.1 (-------) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86541 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2016-01-05 09:38, Rainer M Krug writes: >> But I think the idea is: if you're using an IMAP server, you're supposed >> to be letting the server do the searching, and give you the results. >> Searching the filesystem directly is kind of "going behind the server's >> back". I don't actually know if that would cause any real problems, but >> the code is definitely set up with that assumption in mind. > > That is exactly why I left GG as it is, and use notmuch search simply by > using the command notmuch-search. You y=3Dcould also define a new shortcut > for the function (which I think I did - but I have forgotten the > shortcut. M-x notmuch-search is much easier to remember as I do not > search that often). I have also used notmuch-search quite a bit, but there is one aspect I dislike: it's hard to jump back to gnus from a notmuch search. I have found a function that tries to do it (similar to the gnus links of orgmode) but sometimes it does not work (it does not find the message), and if there are unread messages in the target folders, it makes the most recent one read. Alan =2D-=20 OpenPGP Key ID : 040D0A3B4ED2E5C7 Athmospheric CO=E2=82=82 (Updated December 28, 2015, Mauna Loa Obs.): 402.6= 0 ppm --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJWi4w1AAoJEAQNCjtO0uXHJrUH/Ar3/3sfJtycAEpnMlq5K4o6 7BZycwBNRdIw9DnNQVDXNOIujq8co7f91anVdtHztwn+RZjhlPTqmvKKbm5+g+gV G6MpHUNz6nuGaS4NgNd2Kc3pvOSh1X9tp+Uc419fJFGWTa5brjQyS2xmczndLJuj LavntDt3RM91nYp+oF7OVaJFvSBijjhXAid/shlqJOrEnYokmAaINp6kvkW2gMBs +iusl46gO+aoRENuvRN7uk/Nm2JXoKptlw+ktxQld30o9I7ITONnYrE9aK1Y7jJM 3+tkzNZWxkYRLcPOBe+3FAC/adTjkI9RZUEWD2xP5kXCjy3r0jM3hoRaD3G6OA4= =Sl3c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--