Re: nnir imap search does not work as expected

2017-03-12 Thread Arkady Grudzinsky
On Fri, Mar 10 2017, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: [...] > Imap search is pretty weird -- it wants you to specify the > search key ahead of time. If you just use GG and then type a > string, it will search all headers and the body. You can use a > C-u prefix to GG to select which key to search on (incl

Re: nnir imap search does not work as expected

2017-03-12 Thread Arkady Grudzinsky
On Sun, Mar 12 2017, Arkady Grudzinsky wrote: [...] > Thanks. How can I specify the prefix? Everything I type after > C-u seems to be interpreted as a command rather than a search > key. OK. Figured that out. I need to type C-u GG, type the search string, and THEN it asks me for the search

Re: nnir imap search does not work as expected

2017-03-12 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Arkady Grudzinsky writes: > On Sun, Mar 12 2017, Arkady Grudzinsky wrote: > > > [...] > >> Thanks. How can I specify the prefix? Everything I type after >> C-u seems to be interpreted as a command rather than a search >> key. > > OK. Figured that out. I need to type C-u GG, type the search >

Re: nnir imap search does not work as expected

2017-03-12 Thread Bob Newell
There is another way to do this which is straightforward and allows you to use Google search syntax, which I got from the wiki (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusGmail) It has been working for me. It lets you do searches with size:, before:, after:, from:, to: etc. Booleans work too (just remem