Re: Song of Programming

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

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

> It would be neat if nnir was a more general thing...

I completely agree.  Well, right now it supports nnimap and nnmh, nnml
and nnspool.  The problem with supporting other backends lies in
figuring out the article number from the search result.  Hm.

Adding support for other backends with freeWAIS-sf is on my todo
list.  I think Gnus stores the group name (if necessary) and the
article number in extra headers for the other backends, doesn't it?
If this is true, then it would be reasonably simple to tell
freeWAIS-sf to output the article number (and group name) in the
retrieval result.

But I'm not at all sure how to go about this with Glimpse.  Is it
possible to search an nnfolder file (say) with Glimpse and to be able
to tell from the search result the article number?  Seems to be
difficult.  OTOH, Glimpse is quite limited anyway, so...

Would you like to include nnir.el as-is right now, or would you like
to wait until it contains more features (I'm not promising anything
time-wise)?

kai
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