From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41691 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mailing lists and news archiving Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 15:13:42 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87lmfc8qem.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177049 7516 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:10:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:10:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 17155 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2002 21:21:30 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 6 Jan 2002 21:21:30 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16NKjG-0000vz-00; Sun, 06 Jan 2002 15:21:18 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 06 Jan 2002 15:21:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA00887 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 15:20:59 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 11205 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2002 14:14:19 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 11200 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2002 14:14:19 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 6 Jan 2002 14:14:19 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g06EDpb11815 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 15:13:51 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id PAA09903; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 15:13:46 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 335533B03C; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 15:13:42 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 05 Jan 2002 22:36:15 +0100") Original-Lines: 34 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41691 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41691 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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 -- Simplification good! Oversimplification bad! (Larry Wall)