From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28428 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [nnir] WIBNI Date: 23 Dec 1999 04:30:25 -0800 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: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165277 29823 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:54:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:54:37 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C39A3D051F for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 07:32:57 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAB19861; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 06:32:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 23 Dec 1999 06:32:25 -0600 (CST) 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 GAA04609 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 06:32:13 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id DD3EBD051F for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 07:30:31 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 9496 invoked from network); 23 Dec 1999 12:31:49 -0000 Original-Received: from pm3-3-145.la.networkone.net (HELO satellite.local.lan) (reader@209.144.126.145) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 23 Dec 1999 12:31:49 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by satellite.local.lan (8.9.3/8.9.1) id EAA02450; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 04:30:26 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "23 Dec 1999 10:51:01 +0100" Original-Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070099 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.99) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28428 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28428 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > > > Just looking at what was returned when I evaled: > > (setq nnir-mail-backend (car (nth 5 gnus-opened-servers))) > > > > It appears that at least 2 of the pieces of information that nnir > > needs, to search a different server, are in that return. > > > > Seems that nnir could be made to snarf it up by prompting the user for > > a server name, then scanning that list for a match, slurping up the > > strip prefix and name as it goes. > > > > All thats missing in that picture is the proper glimpseindex > > directory. > > Yes, a lot of the necessary information seems to be in the server > parameters. Hm. I think the best approach would be to add the other > nnir information to the server parameters, too, such that you can edit > a server then add a parameter `nnir-glimpse-home' or somesuch which > points to the right directory. > > I have now added this to the todo list. Well many servers do not allow editing. The one in reference does because I hand made that one, but the main originall nnml server does not. However that info seems to be available in `gnus-opened-servers', Would making nnir scan `gnus-opened-servers' be cumbersom or unwieldy? or just plain not smart. Does having nnir manage the indexing part for glimpse or wais, and naming the indexes after servers sound too crazy or programatically unsound?