From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16191 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: searching Date: 22 Aug 1998 18:29:51 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155099 26292 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:04:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:04:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA09351 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 18:35:00 -0700 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA15527 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAK23301; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:33:05 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:32:46 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA23288 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:32:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from beach.silcom.com (beach.silcom.com [199.201.128.19]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA14389 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:32:31 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from chub.local (pm1-39.sba1.avtel.net [207.71.218.89]) by beach.silcom.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA04013 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 18:33:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by chub.local (8.9.1/8.9.1) id SAA00951; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 18:29:51 -0700 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Francisco Solsona's message of "22 Aug 1998 13:04:30 -0500" Original-Lines: 48 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.36/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16191 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16191 Francisco Solsona writes: > Phil Humpherys writes: > > > I'm interesting in useful searcing of mail groups. Suppose I > > have a rather large mail group, and I'd like to search through > > the bodies of the email messages and get a summary window of the > > results? Or say I want to get a summary of all the email my > > friend Craig has ever sent... are there cool ways to do this? > > I'm using kai's nnir, and it does precisely what you want. You > need Wais or glimpse, and you can't restrict it to just one group (not > yet), though. > > You can find it at: > > ftp://ls6-ftp.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/emacs > Kai's nnir is very nice but awfully slow if your only wanting to search one group. It will be really an advance for nnir to get the 'glimpse' -F flag as an option on the gnus prompt (would allow aiming nnir at 1 or 10 or any number of groups by regexp against the path name. For now if you are searching one group, Gnus has built in functioning that does a very nice job. Finds all the hits and assembles them in a buffer for your perusal. Here's how: In the summary buffer press '&' -- When prompted for the "header" type 'body' When prompted for a search string put in your query ( a regexp can be just a word or name) You will then be prompted for the command you wish to run on the hits. Type `#' Gnus will tear through the group finding all messages containing your search string and apply a `#' to them. When this activity is over you can press `/ n' to limit the view to those messages with the `#' on them. Quite a nice search tool. I think you can do this to more than one group by putting several groups in a `virtual group' and following the same sequence. -- Harry Putnam reader@newsguy.com