From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12593 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Waldherr Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Searching in all mails ... Date: 12 Oct 1997 19:45:33 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon University -- Computer Science Department Sender: swa+@mind.learning.cs.cmu.edu Message-ID: Reply-To: Stefan Waldherr NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152101 4616 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:15:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:15:01 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA30879 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:30:04 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA18201 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 19:22:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 01:46:17 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 2782 invoked by uid 504); 12 Oct 1997 23:46:15 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 2779 invoked from network); 12 Oct 1997 23:46:15 -0000 Original-Received: from mind.learning.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.185.27) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 12 Oct 1997 23:46:15 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.66/XEmacs 19.15 X-Url: http://mind.learning.cs.cmu.edu/ X-Face: "-=6){9J':KXui`/fiH#,g(pr\2Rv'7{dSci>!;1r2zpWB*qcI6gH^LoLQjSSNSg@ee_n~dV]|;5T7=d6_FNPEvqKDk`OWLB[CKOkG.M6{J.??WB*1Wk`y?de2[56)Iv"y#tg@p]~%_3>&;;PQ-{A)UcZ_?nj@b(FN]!Sq6QS9YuGJZ3qkdPq(h-olTvcq0,TS%?i]ddP2E'&^ud Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12593 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12593 is quite a pain in gnus. It would be really nice to have a feature (possibly thru `G w' in the group buffer?) that searches thru all mails. glimpse is a very fast search engine (http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/, there is also an .rpm) that seems very good for this kind of task. glimpse requires an index to search, so you index your mail regularily in a cron job, for example glimpseindex -o -H ~/Mail/ ~/Mail/ This tells glimpse to index ~/Mail and leave an index file (size in this case about 7-9% of all files) in ~/Mail/.glimpse_*. Searching the index is even easier, for example glimpse -H ~/Mail/ 'web;server;account' looks in the index file, that glimpse finds in ~/Mail/.glimpse_*) and returns a list of matching mails in the form /home/swa/Mail/bxx-users/14: An RWI web server account will be needed and is availble free on request. /home/swa/Mail/bxx-users/17: >An RWI web server account will be needed and is availble free on request. Wouldn't this be an extremely useful feature? Stefan. -- Stefan Waldherr office +1 (412) 268-3837 fax +1 (412) 268-5576 e-Mail swa@cs.cmu.edu www http://mind.learning.cs.cmu.edu/