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From: Andrew Cohen <cohen@andy.bu.edu>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: G G on groups
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:38:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aa2pylfx.fsf@andy.bu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80lim96xto.fsf@somewhere.org>

>>>>> "Sebastien" == Sebastien Vauban  writes:

    Sebastien> Hello, I'm using Ma Gnus v0.4 (update last week or so --
    Sebastien> but that does not matter for the question here), and want
    Sebastien> to try using `G G' a lot more.

    Sebastien> Though,

    Sebastien> - on `gnu.emacs.gnus', I get the error

    Sebastien>   gnus-group-read-ephemeral-group: Couldn't request
    Sebastien> group: Search produced empty results.

    Sebastien> - on `nntp+gmane:gmane.emacs.orgmode', it does work.

    Sebastien> Is it expected to be failing on some groups?

This key sequence uses nnir to search. nntp servers do not support
searching, except for gmane which has a nice search interface by Olly
Betts. So my guess is you are reading gnu.emacs.gnus through a news
server (not gmane) and that's why you don't get any results. 

      reply	other threads:[~2012-04-06 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-06  8:58 Sebastien Vauban
2012-04-06 14:38 ` Andrew Cohen [this message]

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