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From: Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>
Subject: Re: nnir.el?
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 19:51:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9fz5r1gbo.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilu1xhbxz29.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>

On Thu, Sep 09 2004, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> I forget, can someone remind me why nnir.el is in contrib/ and not
> lisp/?

I vaguely remember something about missing or unclear copyright
assignments.  But Kai or Christoph should know more.

> I recall discussing how to implement searching The Right Way, but
> nothing came out that.  And nnir.el, despite whatever limitations it
> might have, is useful for many people including me.  

One thing that has bitten me was that it requires expanded file names
which makes it harder when using the same configuration on different
accounts (~/Mail may expand to different values).

> So why not move it to lisp/, and describe how it works in the
> manual?  If nobody object, I'll do it.

Fine.

According to some discussion on emacs-devel, we should remove the
non-free search engines such as glimpse because there are free
alternatives, IIRC.

Bye, Reiner.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-09 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-09 15:05 nnir.el? Simon Josefsson
2004-09-09 16:49 ` nnir.el? Christoph Conrad
2004-09-09 17:08   ` nnir.el? David S Goldberg
2004-09-09 19:47     ` nnir.el? Christoph Conrad
2004-09-09 17:51 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2004-09-09 19:45   ` nnir.el? Christoph Conrad
     [not found]   ` <v9fz5r1gbo.fsf-WZbs9ZYJ0ya4nSHvGpykACzlmkwuQ7VwhC4ANOJQIlc@public.gmane.org>
2004-09-10 15:16     ` nnir.el? Jochen Küpper
2004-09-11 17:24   ` nnir.el? Simon Josefsson
2004-09-11 18:16     ` nnir.el? Josh
2004-10-23 20:54   ` nnir.el? Kai Grossjohann

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