Re: [Patch] allowing nnir.el + swish-e to search gziped mails

[Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 11 2006, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de> writes:
>>
>>> This is a trivial patch for nnir.el from gnus/contrib/
>>> it allows searching nnml mail groups with enabled file compression.
>>
>> Thanks for the patch; I've applied it to No Gnus v0.5 (i. e., CVS).
>
> I've changed it to match .bz2 and thelike as well in the trunk:

Are there actually any backends able to use bz2 compression, or any
files with an other suffix than .gz for that matter?

>         (when (string-match "^[0-9]+\\(\\.[a-z0-9]+\\)?$" artno)
> 	  ;; nnml-use-compressed-files might be any string, but probably this
> 	  ;; is sufficient.  Note that we can't only use the value of
> 	  ;; nnml-use-compressed-files because old articles might have been
> 	  ;; saved with a different value.
>
> Do you see any problem with this change?  Else, I'll port this changes
> to v5-10/Emacs as well.

On a first glance I can't see any problems beside the fact, that it
matches nearly every possible suffix, but I'd guess that's the
intention...  ;-)

btw. nnir.el isn't part of Emacs yet, which IMO is a pity.

cheers
sascha
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