From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/11180 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Quick Searching of Gnus Letters Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:09:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87iqvlzdob.fsf@be.cs.appstate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215425398 9336 80.91.229.12 (7 Jul 2008 10:09:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:09:58 +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 Jul 07 12:10:44 2008 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 1KFngB-00010F-4X for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:10:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34568 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KFnfI-0002BZ-Ms for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:09:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KFnfB-0002Aa-Py for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:09:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KFnf8-00029u-48 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:09:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54683 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KFnf7-00029V-Kg for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:09:37 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:43768 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KFnf6-0002Bm-Lj for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:09:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KFnf2-0000FH-9R for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:09:32 +0000 Original-Received: from kafka.physik3.gwdg.de ([134.76.92.48]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:09:32 +0000 Original-Received: from de_bb by kafka.physik3.gwdg.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:09:32 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: kafka.physik3.gwdg.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:w4PiQYCH/HMN1v6GvDtTfyA5078= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:11180 Archived-At: Kenneth Jacker writes: > I have been using 'swish-e' as a "search engine" for a couple of years > to provide faster access directly from withing Gnus (via "G G") to > previous letters in my groups. [...] > Should I continue to use 'swish-e'? Or, do you have another suggestion? In CVS Gnus, there is nnir and nnmairix for searching mails (and also gnus-namazu.el in contrib). While nnmairix is tied to mairix, nnir supports several different search engines: swish-e/++, wais, Namazu, HyREX, and IMAP. As far as I know, no one has yet written up a comparison regarding these search engines, but one important point is that while swish-e, wais, namazu and HyREX are universal text retrieval systems, mairix is strictly tied to mail. If this is an advantage or not depends on what you'd like to do with it, of course. nnmairix is documented in the Gnus manual in CVS, but you can also look here for a starting point: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnusMairix The mairix home page: http://www.rpcurnow.force9.co.uk/mairix/ Regards, David