Re: gnus-glimpse.el -- search a newsgroup using glimpse

[Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de>]

>>>>> Greg Stark writes:

  Greg> Interestingly i was just thinking the other day about how to
  Greg> implement searching through a group for text in an article in
  Greg> a way that would support protocol features to do it on the
  Greg> server side. It might be worth thinking of some abstraction to
  Greg> handle this though i'm not sure of exactly what it should look
  Greg> like.

Hm.  What would you all think if each backend would (optionally)
provide an nnchoke-search function expecting a string as argument and
returning a list of article numbers (maybe message-id's)?

Gnus could then have some function that queried the user for a search
string, would pass it to the nnchoke-search-function and display the
articles.

There could be different .el files for different search engines or
methods (put a require in .gnus.el to select one), or maybe one would
specify (setq nnml-search-type 'glimpse) which would lead Gnus to
invoke nnml-search-with-glimpse.

The problem of the different query string formats would still remain,
of course.  As a first approximation one would require the user to
enter the right string format.

In addition, it might also be nice if Gnus had a function that, given
a list of ("groupname" . articlenumber) pairs (or something), would
display these articles from the groups.  But that can be done later.

What do you think?
kai
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