From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28417 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [nnir] WIBNI Date: 22 Dec 1999 17:52:48 -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 1035165269 29784 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:54:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:54:29 +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 506B0D051F for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 20:56:59 -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 TAB19243; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 19:56:24 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 22 Dec 1999 19:54:46 -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 TAA00728 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 19:54:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 31786D051F for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 20:52:55 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 323 invoked from network); 23 Dec 1999 01:54:10 -0000 Original-Received: from pm3-6-76.la.networkone.net (HELO satellite.local.lan) (reader@209.144.125.76) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 23 Dec 1999 01:54:10 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by satellite.local.lan (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA01161; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 17:52:48 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "22 Dec 1999 17:18:36 -0800" Original-Lines: 75 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:28417 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28417 Harry Putnam writes: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > > > Harry Putnam 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: [...] Goody... it working..!