Re: Searching an NNTP group in Gnus

[N. Raghavendra]

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.

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Harish-Chandra Research Institute, http://www.hri.res.in/