From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16520 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnir search string Date: 31 Aug 1998 08:46:17 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155379 28335 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:09:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:09:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA28871 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 11:51:04 -0400 (EDT) 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 KAF23707; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:21:55 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:49:22 -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 KAA10873 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:49:12 -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 LAA28863 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 11:49:02 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from chub.local (pm2-10.sba1.avtel.net [207.71.218.110]) by beach.silcom.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA23510 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 08:49:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by chub.local (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA01596; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 08:46:18 -0700 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of "31 Aug 1998 16:49:02 +0200" Original-Lines: 51 X-Mailer: Pterodactyl Gnus v0.5/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16520 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16520 Kai Grossjohann 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... -- Running Redhat Linux-5.1 Harry Putnam reader@newsguy.com