Re: [Nmh-workers] Questionable code - the bigger picture

[Mike O'Dell]

best solution i've found for The Big Search function is "glimpse".
index the ~/Mail directory (and have cron do it regularly)
and then "glimpse <terms>" and presto!

you can arrange to just get file names out for matches so
capturing that and generating a sequence shouldn't be too hard
but i haven't been motiviated to write the script

        cheers,
        -mo


Nathan Bailey wrote:
> Jon Steinhart <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> >         3.  Improve the reading end of mime mail.  I've brought this issue up
> >             before and have ideas on how to do this.
>
>
> Such as?  (e.g. I'm sure I could work out how to make 'scan' show real
> text instead of: "=?ISO-2202-JP?Q?=82l=82 ..." in subject lines if I
> RTFM'd, but shouldn't it be a default?)
>
>
> > So what else needs doing?  Let's put together a plan to do it.
>
>
> Probably my biggest mh challenge at present is finding messages, i.e.
> did I file that in this folder or that one?  This is probably the most
> likely thing to move me from mh to something like Thunderbird (with
> inbuilt search).  I currently grep -R to find such messages, I have
> played with glimpse in the past, I suspect mh's annotate function would
> help with this (and with David Allen's GTD organising) but I haven't
> found a solution that is both easy and quick yet.
>
> re,
> N
>
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