Re: nnir better than chocolate

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@amaunet.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> >>>>> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> 
>   > After setting  `nnir-glimpse-home' to 'nnir-exp' with M-x set-variable
>   > (set-variable (quote nnir-glimpse-home) (quote nnir-exp))
>   > 
>   > 'Nnir' still looks for its index  in '~/' the default. 
> 
> Well, there has been a bug.  Thanks to Simon Josefsson who fixed it.
> You might want to fetch a new version of nnir.el.

Yes I have the new version now.  Just got it.  It seems 'nnir' still
looks for 'glimpse-home' only in ~/.
I have this line in .gnus:

(setq nnir-glimpse-home "/home/reader/glimpse-m")
But nnir still looks in ~/

|From *messeges* buffer:
"/home/reader/glimpse-m"
Doing glimpse query nnglimpse...
Doing glimpse query nnglimpse...done
Doing glimpse query nnglimpse...
Doing glimpse query nnglimpse...done
Retrieving newsgroup: nnir:nnglimpse...
Doing glimpse query nnglimpse...
Doing glimpse query nnglimpse...done
Fetching headers for nnir:nnglimpse...
Args out of range: ["can't open glimpse index-file .home.reader..glimpse_index
(use -H to give an index-directory or run 'glimpseindex' to make an index)
" 1000], 2

Is the ".home.reader..glimpse_index" notation, an indication of a problem?

> 
> Btw, you should use (setq nnir-glimpse-home "/path/goes/here"), not
> (setq nnir-glimpse-home '/path/goes/here).  The directory name is a
> string and thus needs "..." notation.

I've set the home variable with M-x set-variable then captured the
output with C-x ESC ESC C-a C-k  and yanked it into .gnus
That method produces the syntax below.  Is that incorrect?

(set-variable (quote nnir-glimpse-home) (quote/home/reader/glimpse-m))
Using either the above or:
(setq nnir-glimpse-home "/home/reader/glimpse-m")
Neither causes nnir to look in ~/glimpse-m for its index files.  Nnir
still looks in ~/

C-h v shows :

nnir-glimpse-home's value is
/home/reader/glimpse-m

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Harry Putnam