From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31885 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnir/freeWAIS-sf Date: 21 Jul 2000 16:12:50 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168246 16638 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:44:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:44:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B4FED051E for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 19:18:37 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAC02586; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 18:18:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 21 Jul 2000 18:17:16 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA17688 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 18:16:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 69A56D051E for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 19:17:30 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 12625 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2000 23:17:29 -0000 Original-Received: from adsl-116-86.ln.networkone.net (HELO reader.ptw.com) (209.144.116.86) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 21 Jul 2000 23:17:29 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.ptw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA00632; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 16:17:26 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.ptw.com: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Sat, 22 Jul 2000 00:34:25 +0200" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.5 Original-Lines: 49 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31885 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31885 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > On 21 Jul 2000, Harry Putnam wrote: >=20 > > What exactly does `GLOBAL' mean and how is that index accessed? > > Can one make a `free text' query using the nnir example *.fmt? it > > appears not. Which index holds `GLOBAL' data? >=20 > If you say `foo=3Dxyzzy', then the foo field is searched for xyzzy. > If you say `xyzzy', then the global field is searched. [...] > > What would really be cool would be having both available. The > > ephemeral group assembled and a buffer similar to the emacs M-x grep > > buffer with hypertext that takes one to the exact hit. >=20 > Ah, yes. It's not clear how to implement this, but it would be a cool > feature. SFgate provides what's known as `search term highlighting'. > This means if you issue a query `foo bar' then all occurrences of > `foo' and of `bar' will be red, or bold, or blinking, or whatever. >=20 > > Since all gnus needs is the file names to generate the group maybe > > glimpse could be run with out the `-l' flag and let gnus snatch them > > out by regexp, allowing the other output to be available for such a > > buffer. >=20 > That's what (setq nnir-engine 'glimpse) does. See the > nnir-run-glimpse function. No, it runs glimpse *with* the `-l' flag, I'm saying if glimpse was run *without* that flag then the string match data would be available to be snatched into a buffer somehow. Have you seen Uli's CPAN-WAIT? A wais server app for the .cpan interface.? You type `perl -MCPAN -e shell' and then at the prompt wq QUERY or=20 wq des=3DQUERY. To search www.perl.com for packages. Uli's Wais part seems good, but the cpan stuff seems out of date and fairly brain dead.