Re: How to search on emacs-devel?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Is there any (other) guide about how to search in the emacs-devel
>> archives?
>>
>> I am frequently trying to find some old threads, and the search
>> functionality usually seems to be of
>> no help. As the bottom of the archives page (
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/) tells
>> me that the search functionality is powered by `Namazu`, I have tried to
>> find in its docs how to use
>> it. It says that using a space in a query, by default, does the same
>> as the
>> AND operator (see
>> http://www.namazu.org/doc/manual.html#query). However, when testing it, I
>> have found that that is
>> not the case (also the and operator does not work).
>>
>> Wouldn't it be a good idea to add some info about how to use the search
>> functionality?
>
> I sometimes use https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/,
> e.g. 
> https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/CACJP=3n854x2w0M-u9ba=e2zT=JUNyRfrqZT11co5_+Up56vMg@mail.gmail.com/

Oh! I'd read about public inbox, and then forgot about it again. I
wonder how hard it would be to write a Gnus search engine that used this
for search, then requested the actual message from Gmane...