From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13659 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: A search feature request Date: 17 Jan 1998 22:04:18 +0000 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152982 10375 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:29:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:29:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA26524 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 22:18:53 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA08365 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 00:16:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAN14101; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 00:53:24 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 18 Jan 1998 00:12:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA08057 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 00:12:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 16104 invoked by uid 504); 18 Jan 1998 06:12:37 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 16101 invoked from network); 18 Jan 1998 06:12:36 -0000 Original-Received: from pm5-7.sba1.avtel.net (HELO org.com) (207.71.222.71) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 18 Jan 1998 06:12:35 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by org.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA00574; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 22:04:19 GMT Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 45 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13659 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13659 I am, no doubt the newest kid on the block here, but hope you will take time to read this and let me know if this is already possible or if you think it would be a desirable addition to Gnus already formidable searching ability. I'll confess right off the bat that this functionality is a feature of "Forte Agent" news reader. ( a windows application) the functionality about to be described is very usefull for finding information in news or mail postings/messages. With Quassia's offline abilities and the holding of large numbers of articles on disk, the following functions become highly desirable and possible to carry out at good speeds. What it amounts to is being able to aim a regexp search at any part of a posting. The part searched (header or body) to be designatable, and having the ability to limit the view to those articles answering the regexp, in the same fashion we can do now with regexp against subject, and author. The value of this over the existing (M-s) regexp search is: 1) Being able to aim at a header or body separately 2) The hits would be assembled in summary fashion where they could be surveyed quickly and the most appropriate ones chosen for further action, or simply read. ( ie view limited to hits) As against the current process of viewing each hit as it is found. A further advancement of this would be the ability to perform a regexp search across selected or all groups. Again, with the hits being assembled in a separate view (possibly a new frame or seperate buffer) With Summary style, author subject listing and additional information on summary line showing which group the hit came from. I have been told that nnkiboze, functions something like above but after reading and experimenting with it, was not able to see much similarity. I have found the functions describe above to be a very useful feature of a News and mail reader. Already knowing of Gnus ability to be adapted and expanded I suspect this is already possible, but would like to hear how it could be done. -- Harry Putnam reader@super.zippo.com