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Re: make-thread with lambda form instead of function symbol
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Andrew Cohen |
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Re: make-thread with lambda form instead of function symbol |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:00:13 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:
>> And a side-side comment: if the different backends allow
>> different criteria then search groups from different backends
>> will prompt for different criteria for each backend. Cumbersome
>> but occasionally helpful.
Eric> Actually, in the implementation I'm working on now, I've
Eric> removed the additional criteria. The general query language
Eric> makes selecting imap keys unnecessary, the gmane "author"
Eric> criteria can simply be transformed from the "from" keyword
Eric> (not to mention that this support is now theoretical!), and
Eric> all the other backend criteria specify groups: can't we just
Eric> take that from the group search spec?
Eliminating the criteria sounds good---it was present just to deal with
the non-uniformity of search query formats across different backends,
so once the universal language is in place it should go away forever.
Best,
Andy
- Re: make-thread with lambda form instead of function symbol, (continued)
Re: make-thread with lambda form instead of function symbol, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/04/17
Re: make-thread with lambda form instead of function symbol, Andrew Cohen, 2017/04/17
Re: make-thread with lambda form instead of function symbol, Eric Abrahamsen, 2017/04/19