Re: nnir advice

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

Arnd Kohrs <kohrs@acm.org> writes:

> has anybody managed to setup an nnir with compressed mails?  The TODO
> list claims, that it is an open issue.

Well, I haven't done any work on it.  Can you try to read the nnir.el
sources to see what it does?  It is not really difficult: there is a
function nnir-run-query which dispatches to nnir-run-<backend>, ie
nnir-run-glimpse in your case.  The backend function massages the
query a bit and then runs glimpse (or waissearch, or whatever), then
parses the output of that and returns an alist of article number and
file name or suchlike.

I think it might be sufficient to just chop off the `.gz' from the
file name at the appropriate point.

I think you will be able to understand the function quite easily: the
output of glimpse is massaged in an understandable way into something
which looks like Lisp and is then evaled.

kai
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