nnir.el: successor of nnglimpse.el

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

Hi all,

I have now extended the functionality of nnglimpse.el to other search
engines, too.  (Well, only to freeWAIS-sf, really.)

Those who might want to try it are welcome to download it from 
<URL:ftp://ls6-ftp.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/src/emacs/nnir.el>.

See the beginning of the file for more documentation.  I'd like to
extract a few paragraphs from this documentation:

;; Restrictions:
;;
;; * Currently, this expects that you use nnml or another
;;   one-file-per-message backend.
;; * It can only search one mail backend.
;; * There are restrictions to the Glimpse setup.
;; * There are restrictions to the Wais setup.
...
;; Todo, or future ideas:

;; * There is currently no error checking.
;;
;; * The summary buffer display is currently really ugly, with all the
;;   added information in the subjects.  How could I make this
;;   prettier?
;;
;; * A function which can be called from an nnir summary buffer which
;;   teleports you into the group the current article came from and
;;   shows you the whole thread this article is part of.
;;   Implementation suggestions?
;;
;; * Support other mail backends.  In particular, probably quite a few
;;   people use nnfolder.  How would one go about searching nnfolders
;;   and producing the right data needed?  The group name and the RSV
;;   are simple, but what about the article number?

;; Have you got other ideas?

Do not hesitate to tell me what you think.  I'll also be happy to send
you the file by mail if you like.

kai
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