nnir searching nntp

nnir searching nntp

[Karl Kleinpaste]

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I use my own NNTP server, which only takes a couple hundred groups.
It has turned out to be reasonable to sic swish++ on it in the early
morning, and so I'd like to get nnir.el to let me use it
interchangeably with searching my mail archives.

It seemed to me that the problem was straightforward: I merely needed
to define a new wrapper function which uses `let' to set some nnir
variables, and then calls the usual make-group function:


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Unfortunately, this doesn't work, because the `let' value for
nnir-mail-backend doesn't persist beyond the invocation to create the
ephemeral group.  The search results come up just fine, but because
nnir-mail-backend is '(nnml "") in *Summary*, I cannot actually get
the articles without using setq manually.

Any suggestions for how to tweak nnir-mail-backend on the fly?

I could do something truly evil in gnus-select-group-hook, but...well,
i think that would indeed be the epitome of evil.  Duplicated data and
all that, since I would still need the `let' here as well.

Re: nnir searching nntp

[Kai Großjohann]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:

> Any suggestions for how to tweak nnir-mail-backend on the fly?

I want to have multi-backend support in nnir.  This means migrating
all the variables to server parameters, and then the functions should
access the server parameters (if existant) in preference to the
variables.

Alas, I found no time to do this.  Would you like to work on this?

kai
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Simplification good!  Oversimplification bad!  (Larry Wall)