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Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:

> XPAT support would be nice.  Maybe we should consider creating a
> unified way of searching.  Kai's nnir.el lets you search mail groups
> -- it would be neat if nnir and XPAT searches had the same
> interface.

This is not really true.  nnir.el provides a framework for searching
various kinds of groups.  You can just "plug in" a new search engine,
and off you go.

In principle, there shouldn't be a problem with just extending
nnir.el.

kai
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