From: Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to search for ticked articles
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 16:25:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87il702gso.fsf@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878r7x8i7d.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:
>
>> I used to use the "mark:flag" search query to look for ticked articles
>> with gnus-search. I recently noticed that it doesn't return any articles
>> anymore in groups with ticked articles.
>>
>> What exactly does the "flag" mark represent, and is there a better way
>> to look for dormant or ticked articles ?
>
> These things are all search-engine dependent. Notmuch will turn
> "mark:flag" into "tag:flag", and IMAP will turn it into "FLAGGED".
>
> What search engine are you using in this case? The first thing to try
> is always shutting off search parsing (either fully, by setting
> `gnus-search-use-parsed-queries' to nil, or temporarily, using the
> prefix argument). Then get the search working using the search engine's
> native syntax. Then come back here and tell me how it went :)
I'm using the imap search engine. When I shut off search parsing,
the "FLAGGED" search query does indeed return the ticked articles, when
"mark:flag" didn't. But I tried again (with search parsing on) with the
query "mark:flagged" and it works !
--
Julien Cubizolles
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-21 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-20 9:02 Julien Cubizolles
2023-10-20 14:46 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-10-21 14:25 ` Julien Cubizolles [this message]
2023-10-21 19:03 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-10-22 14:32 ` Julien Cubizolles
2023-10-23 14:19 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-10-24 8:05 ` Julien Cubizolles
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