From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/473 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Clausen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How to select articles by (author|subject|...) Date: 17 May 2002 22:22:36 -0500 Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Message-ID: <81d6vunnr7.fsf@shasta.cs.uiuc.edu> References: <81offewg7t.fsf@shasta.cs.uiuc.edu> <863cwqgzg8.fsf@potato.vegetable.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667437 7051 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:30:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:30:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:27:38 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!not-for-mail Original-Sender: lrclause@shasta.cs.uiuc.edu Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.174.246.68 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@uiuc.edu Original-X-Trace: vixen.cso.uiuc.edu 1021692009 128.174.246.68 (Fri, 17 May 2002 22:20:09 CDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 22:20:09 CDT Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:613 Original-Lines: 33 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 613 Tue Jan 17 17:27:38 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:473 Archived-At: On 17 May 2002, Tim Haynes wrote: > Lars Clausen 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 -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket?