Re: nnir search

[Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>]

Andrew Cohen <cohen@andy.bu.edu> writes:

>>>>>> "Francis" == Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:
>
>     Francis> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>     >>>>>>> Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>:
>     >> 
>     >>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes: [...]
>     >> 
>     >>>> The improved nnir search works extremely well on gmane NNTP
>     >>>> groups as well.
>     >> 
>
> [...]
>
>     Francis> A couple of question though, hope you don't mind.
>
>     Francis> Doing `G G' on topic is really cool to perform the search
>     Francis> on a set of groups. But it doesn't work if the topic
>     Francis> contains sub topics. 
>
> [...]
>
>     Francis> Is this expected.
>
> Erh, uhm, maybe :) I never thought about recursing into sub-topics. I
> can see about adding this. 
>

Cool !

Please let me know when you're done, I'll do some testings.

>
>     Francis> Is it possible to doing a limited search on to a specific
>     Francis> part of the message (like wih the imap search engine) with
>     Francis> the gmane engine ?
>
> Not really. The gmane search interface (documented at search.gmane.org)
> just searches the whole message (aside from restricting by group and
> author). 
>

Well I guess I can just do a seach and once in the nnir group, filter
articles by subject.

But the same can be done with filtering by author.

I dunno, I would have thought that filtering by subject was more
common...

>
>     Francis> For local stuff, I'm using nnmairix. Why isn't it a
>     Francis> possible search backend of nnir ?
>
> It's on my todo list. But nnmairix provides some functionality that
> isn't available through the nnir interface, so if you use any of these
> features you should stick with nnmairix anyway.

I don't see which features you're thinking. That probably means I'm not
in this case. Basically I use nnmairix to do basic search by subject,
from... and of course update my database a couple of time in the week.

Thanks
-- 
Francis