From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58426 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnir.el? Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 19:51:23 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094752433 31136 80.91.224.253 (9 Sep 2004 17:53:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 17:53:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6967@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Sep 09 19:53:41 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C5T77-0002tB-00 for ; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 19:53:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1C5T5a-0007JM-00; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 12:52:06 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1C5T5V-0007JH-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 12:52:01 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1C5T5U-0006qm-JU for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 12:52:00 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A27A3A01F2 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 12:51:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C5T5O-0001m1-00 for ; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 19:51:54 +0200 Original-Received: from lumberjack.physik.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.10.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 19:51:54 +0200 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by lumberjack.physik.uni-ulm.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 19:51:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lumberjack.physik.uni-ulm.de X-Face: :6KQZ[nyoS_edmB.%gw-=)BYth^|2+Y+^cu%I$FSx!&>-'om>3H7A|M&n(V7fIo3P.;yo.b yq4$p;ZaBtkv)\}biaiBQe"mD}iib1AA@99-fZ7i*bLhNRVC&0Wkxg9)SH?oWc@{ Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GvtwcDWrdopIZM1Ph8n7mhc+JPo= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58426 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58426 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. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/