Re: nnir search string

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

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

> >>>>> On 31 Aug 1998, Harry Putnam said:
> 
>   Harry> Can any kind of `regexp' or `boolean' formula be used at the
>   Harry> nnir prompt.  The comments in nnir.el, say a 'string' is
>   Harry> expected. But that word always confuses me.  It gets used to
>   Harry> mean just about anything.
> 
> I used the word string because I didn't want to tell you what it means
> :-)

Hehe -- it didn't worked...

> 
> No, seriously: it is a query as defined by the current search engine.
> Thus, if you use Glimpse, you can type a Glimpse query as if you were
> calling Glimpse from the command line (modulo shell escapes -- see
> below).  If you use freeWAIS-sf, you type in a fwsf query.

> Only difference is that in the shell you need to be careful with
> special characters like * and ?.  When typing the query after `G G',
> you can just type * and it will be passed on to Glimpse or freeWAIS-sf
> just like that.

This command line:

glimpse -d '\^d' -F ding -H ~/.glimpse-m "nnglimpse,nnir"

Will search only groups having 'ding' in the path, delimited on EOF,
and find all your postings in my 'ding' group from nnglimpse onward

But an nnir rendition:
-F ding 'nnglimpse,nnir' only gives 
"cannot open group"

Facncisco writes:
 > > What problems are encountered trying to impliment the use of the
 > > `glimpse' -F flag?  (can be used to restrict the search)
 > 
 > 	   I don't know what you mean, since the -F flag is used all the
 > time to restrict your query to mail files only.

Now I get it.  I can't use the '-F' flag because it is already in use.
 
Duh...

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