From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26182 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill White Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnir question (was Re: nnmail-split-methods question) Date: 04 Nov 1999 14:39:04 -0600 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=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163439 18044 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:23:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:23:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA12363 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:40:27 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAB20764; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 14:40:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 04 Nov 1999 14:39:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA11604 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 14:39:46 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from dragonfly.wolfram.com (root@dragonfly.wolfram.com [140.177.10.12]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA12354 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:39:08 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from g.wolfram.com (billw@g.wolfram.com [140.177.4.48]) by dragonfly.wolfram.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA15268; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 14:39:07 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from billw@localhost) by g.wolfram.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id OAA10646; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 14:39:04 -0600 Original-To: Karl Kleinpaste X-Liturgical-Date: Memorial -- Charles Borromeo, B, A.D. 1999 In-Reply-To: Karl Kleinpaste's message of "04 Nov 1999 14:54:30 -0500" Original-Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) Emacs/20.4.90 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26182 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26182 On 04 Nov 1999 14:54:30 -0500 in article Karl Kleinpaste said: > Bill White 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 -- Bill White . billw@wolfram.com . http://members.wri.com/billw "The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis." -G. K. Chesterton, "David Copperfield," Chesterton on Dickens, 1911