Re: [nnir] WIBNI

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

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> 
> > Well, you can manually change nnir-mail-backend; that's rather easy.
> > But there is no user-interface for this, yet.
> > 
> > You could do (setq nnir-mail-backend (nth X
> > gnus-secondary-select-methods)) for various small numbers X if all
> > your servers are secondary, as opposed to foreign.
> 
> What are you talking about above?  Can you spell it out a bit more?

If you had both servers in gnus-secondary-select-methods, you could
have said

    M-: (setq nnir-mail-backend (nth 0 gnus-secondary-select-methods)) RET

to search the first one, and a similar line with 1 instead of 0 to
search the second one.

> However the server in question is listed in server buffer, an `e'
> shows:
> 
> (nnml "n2m"
>       (nnml-directory "/mnt/pack/n2m/")
>       (nnml-active-file "/mnt/pack/n2m/active"))
> 
> If I happen to respool messages by nnml backend, gnus prompts me for
> which nnml server I want.  I hoped to do something similar with nnir.

Well, it appears that gnus-opened-servers contains a list of all open
servers, so, hum.

Does the following do the trick (with M-:)?

(setq nnir-mail-backend (car (nth 0 gnus-opened-servers)))

Also try 1, 2 and so on instead of 0.

Like I said, it must be done manually right now, and I intend to add a
feature to nnir such that you can search several servers, but I
haven't been able to do it, yet.  I think it is more involved than
what is shown above.  For example, in addition to nnir-mail-backend
you need to set other variables, eg nnir-glimpse-home and so on.

kai
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