From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/13322 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: harven Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: searching articles Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:18:41 +0100 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <87iqcsctni.fsf@ergodik.univ-brest.fr> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259577688 22644 80.91.229.12 (30 Nov 2009 10:41:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:41:28 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 30 11:41:21 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NF3h0-00046d-2F for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:41:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59451 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NF3gz-0002zN-M4 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:41:17 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.in2p3.fr!in2p3.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!crihan.fr!news.univ-brest.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: mathw171.univ-brest.fr Original-X-Trace: news.univ-brest.fr 1259569245 23415 172.19.130.171 (30 Nov 2009 08:20:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.univ-brest.fr Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Nov 2009 08:20:45 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1f2lwJz+uRoap0Geci6Wrw8A8q8= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:83703 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:13322 Archived-At: Martin Rubey writes: > I would like to do a search-engine like search on a (local, gnus) mail > archive. I just tried (in the directory where my mail resides) > > M-x grep -i -nH -e "modular" $(grep -l "testInterpolant" *) > > but this seems very clumsy. Any better idea? M-x lgrep and for a recursive search M-x rgrep Also emacs23 ships with mairix. From the mairix manual "Mairix is a tool for indexing and searching words in locally stored mail. It was written by Richard Curnow and is licensed under the GPL."