Re: Mailing lists and news archiving

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I was actually pondering these very things.  How to do a convenient
> search from Gnus from such a repository?
>
> Ok, say you go enter the gnus.xemacs.beta group.  (I should come up
> with a better top level hierarchy, though.)  You press the "search"
> button, and type in a text.  Gnus queries Quimby, and gets a list of
> Message-IDs back.  Gnus then requests these headers from the news
> server, and displays them in the buffer.

*cough*

nnir.el has an attempt on this.  You only need to add the function
that does the querying of the search engine:

> The query can be via HTTP to some search engine or other running
> separately on Quimby.  For instance a Glimpse thing, or whatever is
> the done thing these days.

If I do say so myself.  *blush*

> I think such a thing could be done without too much work...

I wish I had more time to devote to nnir.el.  I keep planning to add
useful features (such as interfacing to my pet search engine), but
don't have the time.  Ick.

ftp://ls6-ftp.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/src/emacs/
has nnir.el, I believe.

kai
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