* still puzzled by what should be a common idiom
@ 1999-07-06 18:08 Randal L. Schwartz
1999-07-06 18:43 ` Aaron M. Ucko
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From: Randal L. Schwartz @ 1999-07-06 18:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
I go into a fat folder and I want to narrow to just those
items that have a body that matches "foo".
What I've been doing so far is
& Body <ret> foo <ret> #
(wait for searches to set mark)
then "search" in the summary for #, which musses up if the subject has # too
What's the right ding-y way to do this?
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* Re: still puzzled by what should be a common idiom
1999-07-06 18:08 still puzzled by what should be a common idiom Randal L. Schwartz
@ 1999-07-06 18:43 ` Aaron M. Ucko
1999-07-08 7:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-07-06 19:32 ` Neil Crellin
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From: Aaron M. Ucko @ 1999-07-06 18:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
> & Body <ret> foo <ret> #
> (wait for searches to set mark)
> then "search" in the summary for #, which musses up if the subject has # too
>
> What's the right ding-y way to do this?
I'd expect `/ m #' [(gnus-summary-limit-to-marks "#")] to work, but it
doesn't appear to. Lars, would it be difficult to fix this? Anyway,
for now I guess you could set some weird mark on all the articles with
the help of M-& and then limit to that mark.
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* Re: still puzzled by what should be a common idiom
1999-07-06 18:08 still puzzled by what should be a common idiom Randal L. Schwartz
1999-07-06 18:43 ` Aaron M. Ucko
@ 1999-07-06 19:32 ` Neil Crellin
1999-07-06 23:10 ` Harry Putnam
1999-07-07 22:32 ` Randal L. Schwartz
1999-07-06 22:36 ` Bill White
1999-07-07 9:55 ` Kai.Grossjohann
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From: Neil Crellin @ 1999-07-06 19:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
> I go into a fat folder and I want to narrow to just those
> items that have a body that matches "foo".
>
> What I've been doing so far is
>
> & Body <ret> foo <ret> #
> (wait for searches to set mark)
> then "search" in the summary for #, which musses up if the subject has # too
>
> What's the right ding-y way to do this?
Sounds like you want to look into the nnir stuff.
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* Re: still puzzled by what should be a common idiom
1999-07-06 18:08 still puzzled by what should be a common idiom Randal L. Schwartz
1999-07-06 18:43 ` Aaron M. Ucko
1999-07-06 19:32 ` Neil Crellin
@ 1999-07-06 22:36 ` Bill White
1999-07-06 23:04 ` Aaron M. Ucko
1999-07-07 9:55 ` Kai.Grossjohann
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From: Bill White @ 1999-07-06 22:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: merlyn
In article <m11zelmz0z.fsf@halfdome.holdit.com>, merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
randal> I go into a fat folder and I want to narrow to just those
randal> items that have a body that matches "foo".
randal> What I've been doing so far is
randal> & Body <ret> foo <ret> #
randal> (wait for searches to set mark)
randal> then "search" in the summary for #, which musses up if the subject has # too
randal> What's the right ding-y way to do this?
'/ n' narrows to articles marked with #. You can then use '/ w' to
widen the Summary buffer back to the way it was before the narrowing.
Thanks to Kai who posted this once upon a time.
Well, here's larsi's explanation from the manual at Gnus->The Summary
Buffer->Limiting:
`/ n'
Limit the summary buffer to the current article
(`gnus-summary-limit-to-articles'). Uses the process/prefix
convention (*note Process/Prefix::.).
`/ w'
Pop the previous limit off the stack and restore it
(`gnus-summary-pop-limit'). If given a prefix, pop all limits off
the stack.
bw
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* Re: still puzzled by what should be a common idiom
1999-07-06 22:36 ` Bill White
@ 1999-07-06 23:04 ` Aaron M. Ucko
1999-07-06 23:34 ` François Pinard
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From: Aaron M. Ucko @ 1999-07-06 23:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:
> '/ n' narrows to articles marked with #. You can then use '/ w' to
> widen the Summary buffer back to the way it was before the narrowing.
Oops, that works too. I still think `/ m #' ought to work for
consistency, though.
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* Re: still puzzled by what should be a common idiom
1999-07-06 19:32 ` Neil Crellin
@ 1999-07-06 23:10 ` Harry Putnam
1999-07-07 22:32 ` Randal L. Schwartz
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From: Harry Putnam @ 1999-07-06 23:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
Neil Crellin <neilc@wallaby.cc> writes:
> merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
> > I go into a fat folder and I want to narrow to just those
> > items that have a body that matches "foo".
> >
> > What I've been doing so far is
> >
> > & Body <ret> foo <ret> #
> > (wait for searches to set mark)
> > then "search" in the summary for #, which musses up if the subject has # too
> >
> > What's the right ding-y way to do this?
>
> Sounds like you want to look into the nnir stuff.
You need to say `/ n ' after the seaches are over.
`gnus-summary-limit-to-articles' With process (#) set gnus limits to
those articles.
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* Re: still puzzled by what should be a common idiom
1999-07-06 23:04 ` Aaron M. Ucko
@ 1999-07-06 23:34 ` François Pinard
1999-07-07 1:41 ` Aaron M. Ucko
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From: François Pinard @ 1999-07-06 23:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko) writes:
> Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:
> > '/ n' narrows to articles marked with #. You can then use '/ w' to
> > widen the Summary buffer back to the way it was before the narrowing.
> Oops, that works too. I still think `/ m #' ought to work for
> consistency, though.
The `mark' concept is a bit overloaded in Gnus. `/ m' is probably meant for
`read marks' only. I'm not sure. Does it work for `Saved' or `Answered'
marks? I would guess not.
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* Re: still puzzled by what should be a common idiom
1999-07-06 23:34 ` François Pinard
@ 1999-07-07 1:41 ` Aaron M. Ucko
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From: Aaron M. Ucko @ 1999-07-07 1:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> The `mark' concept is a bit overloaded in Gnus. `/ m' is probably meant for
> `read marks' only. I'm not sure. Does it work for `Saved' or `Answered'
> marks? I would guess not.
Good point; `/ m A RET' yields nothing in a *Summary* buffer with
several answered messages. That just means extending its
functionality could be even more useful, thought...especially combined
with negation.
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* Re: still puzzled by what should be a common idiom
1999-07-06 18:08 still puzzled by what should be a common idiom Randal L. Schwartz
` (2 preceding siblings ...)
1999-07-06 22:36 ` Bill White
@ 1999-07-07 9:55 ` Kai.Grossjohann
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From: Kai.Grossjohann @ 1999-07-07 9:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> writes:
> I go into a fat folder and I want to narrow to just those
> items that have a body that matches "foo".
I still think that nnir.el is the way to go. But people have reported
difficulties with it :-( So I'd appreciate it if you tried setting up
a Glimpse index or (better still) a freeWAIS-sf index and then used
nnir.el to search it.
kai
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* Re: still puzzled by what should be a common idiom
1999-07-06 19:32 ` Neil Crellin
1999-07-06 23:10 ` Harry Putnam
@ 1999-07-07 22:32 ` Randal L. Schwartz
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From: Randal L. Schwartz @ 1999-07-07 22:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
>>>>> "Neil" == Neil Crellin <neilc@wallaby.cc> writes:
Neil> Sounds like you want to look into the nnir stuff.
I just installed this. Cool! I was already glimpsing my mail
each night... just needed a way to hook it in.
Thanks for the pointer.
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* Re: still puzzled by what should be a common idiom
1999-07-06 18:43 ` Aaron M. Ucko
@ 1999-07-08 7:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1999-07-08 7:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko) writes:
> I'd expect `/ m #' [(gnus-summary-limit-to-marks "#")] to work, but it
> doesn't appear to.
`/ n' limits to the process-marked articles.
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* Re: still puzzled by what should be a common idiom
@ 1999-07-07 7:21 Jaap-Henk Hoepman
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From: Jaap-Henk Hoepman @ 1999-07-07 7:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I once wanted to do a similar thing and was surprised to find a lot of limiting
commands (in the menu) for matching subjects, authors, etc, but not one
for any string in the body of a message. I think it would be consistent if gnus
also had gnus-summary-limit-to-body function.
Jaap-Henk
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