Re: How to select articles by (author|subject|...)

[Lars Clausen <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu>]

On 17 May 2002, Tim Haynes wrote:
> Lars Clausen <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu> writes:
> 
>> When going into large newsgroups or mail folders, I frequently need to
>> just find articles that are from a certain person or with a certain
>> subject. I can't see any easy way to do this in Gnus. I would expect
>> gnus-group-select-by-author or similar. I have been perusing the info
>> pages and FAQs to no avail. Is there a way to do this?
>> 
>> If not, how hard would it be to make Gnus do the following:
>> 
>> Allow entering a group showing only articles matching a certain regexp.
> 
>  | / a runs the command gnus-summary-limit-to-author
>  | (gnus-summary-limit-to-author FROM &optional NOT-MATCHING)
>  | 
>  | Limit the summary buffer to articles that have authors that match a
>  | regexp.  If NOT-MATCHING, excluding articles that have authors that
>  | match a regexp.
> 
> Might not be quite all you asked for, but is it a step in the right
> direction?

The problem is when I want to find something in my >10,000 messages 'other'
mail folder, it just takes too long to load.

-Lars

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