Re: [nnir] WIBNI

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> 
> > Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> > > 
> > > > Well, you can manually change nnir-mail-backend; that's rather easy.
> > > > But there is no user-interface for this, yet.
> > > > 
> > > > You could do (setq nnir-mail-backend (nth X
> > > > gnus-secondary-select-methods)) for various small numbers X if all
> > > > your servers are secondary, as opposed to foreign.
> > > 
> > > What are you talking about above?  Can you spell it out a bit more?
> > 
> > If you had both servers in gnus-secondary-select-methods, you could
> > have said
> > 
> >     M-: (setq nnir-mail-backend (nth 0 gnus-secondary-select-methods)) RET
> > 
> > to search the first one, and a similar line with 1 instead of 0 to
> > search the second one.
> > 
> > > However the server in question is listed in server buffer, an `e'
> > > shows:
> > > 
> > > (nnml "n2m"
> > >       (nnml-directory "/mnt/pack/n2m/")
> > >       (nnml-active-file "/mnt/pack/n2m/active"))
> > > 
> > > If I happen to respool messages by nnml backend, gnus prompts me for
> > > which nnml server I want.  I hoped to do something similar with nnir.
> > 
> > Well, it appears that gnus-opened-servers contains a list of all open
> > servers, so, hum.
> > 
> > Does the following do the trick (with M-:)?
> > 
> > (setq nnir-mail-backend (car (nth 0 gnus-opened-servers)))
> > 
> > Also try 1, 2 and so on instead of 0.
> > 
> > Like I said, it must be done manually right now, and I intend to add a
> > feature to nnir such that you can search several servers, but I
> > haven't been able to do it, yet.  I think it is more involved than
> > what is shown above.  For example, in addition to nnir-mail-backend
> > you need to set other variables, eg nnir-glimpse-home and so on.
> 

Wooops... major typing mistake below... It should say:
(sorry Kai)


> It doesn't seem to be working for me:
It *DOES* seem to be working for me:



> I've set `glimpse-home' as below:
> 
> (setq nnir-glimpse-home "/home/reader/.glimpse-n2m")
> 
> I hit the right server (from your suggestions) as below:

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Goody... it working..!