From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16517 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnir search string Date: 31 Aug 1998 16:49:02 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155376 28319 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:09:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:09:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA28091 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:50:54 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAF23478; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 09:21:58 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 31 Aug 1998 09:49:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA09352 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 09:49:14 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA28064 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:49:08 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.180]) by waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP id QAA05122; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:49:04 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: by ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de id QAA15259; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:49:03 +0200 Original-To: Harry Putnam In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "31 Aug 1998 01:06:16 -0700" Original-Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Pterodactyl Gnus v0.10/Emacs 20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16517 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16517 >>>>> On 31 Aug 1998, Harry Putnam said: Harry> Can any kind of `regexp' or `boolean' formula be used at the Harry> nnir prompt. The comments in nnir.el, say a 'string' is Harry> expected. But that word always confuses me. It gets used to Harry> mean just about anything. I used the word string because I didn't want to tell you what it means :-) No, seriously: it is a query as defined by the current search engine. Thus, if you use Glimpse, you can type a Glimpse query as if you were calling Glimpse from the command line (modulo shell escapes -- see below). If you use freeWAIS-sf, you type in a fwsf query. Only difference is that in the shell you need to be careful with special characters like * and ?. When typing the query after `G G', you can just type * and it will be passed on to Glimpse or freeWAIS-sf just like that. kai -- OOP: object oriented programming; OOPS: object oriented mistakes