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Re: Searching an NNTP group in Gnus
From: |
N. Raghavendra |
Subject: |
Re: Searching an NNTP group in Gnus |
Date: |
Sat, 12 May 2018 08:54:15 +0530 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
At 2018-05-12T00:30:32Z, Robert Munyer wrote:
>> I want to search an NNTP news group like `comp.text.xml' in Gnus. I
>> have subscribed to the news group on an NNTP server, and am able to read
>> and post articles there.
>>
>> The Gnus manual doesn't say much about NNTP searches in news groups
>> which are not a part of the `gmane' hierarchy. Is it possible to search
>> them in Gnus, or with something else?
>
> You want FAQ 6.3, "How to search for a specific message?"
>
> http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_141.html#FAQ-6_002d3
Thank you. That part of the Gnus FAQ perhaps needs to be updated; nnir
is now a part of Gnus (info "Gnus(nnir)").
I can of course use `gnus-summary-search-article-forward' (M-s), but
searching for a string through a news group with about 30,000 articles
like this is not practical.
As for `gnus-group-make-web-group' (G W), it produces no results with
the search string I give, although just the one group that I am looking
at has many messages that match the search string.
What I was hoping for was a way to use nnir to create an ephemeral group
with the messages, in a Usenet news group, that satisfy the search
criterion, just as it does with IMAP groups.
Raghu.
--
N. Raghavendra <raghu@hri.res.in>, http://www.retrotexts.net/
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, http://www.hri.res.in/