Re: nnir question (was Re: nnmail-split-methods question)

[Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>]

On 04 Nov 1999 14:54:30 -0500
in article <vxku2n2jamh.fsf@beaver.jprc.com>
Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> said:

  > Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:
  >>> What would you like to change?  It is important that the Glimpse
  >>> output be predictable, otherwise nnir.el can't build the summary
  >>> buffer.

  >> For use with pgnus, I'd like to change the args to -H and -F to search
  >> through another glimpse index of a separate dir structure.

  > nnir very badly wants to return filenames which exist within your
  > Gnus mail area.  If you look at nnir-run-glimpse, it will delete
  > lines which do not end in digits, remove the prefix dir in which
  > your mail lives, and finally convert to a dotted.group.name,
  > whereupon it will ask nnml to cough up overview entries for those
  > groups.  For indices representing other structures, the result of
  > all the preceding hackery will merely result in nothing being
  > available.  That is, nnir is very Gnus-specific, and is not at all
  > a general glimpse wrapper.

Oof - I hadn't realized that. Well, nnir is ideal for gnus, and
Shutko's glimpse.el is ideal elsewhere.

Many thanks to Kai on such a usable and (for me) essential piece of
software.

bw
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