Hi all, I am a fanatic Helm user, and within Helm I make intensive use of helm-surfraw. It is necessary to install Surfraw on the system (in Arch it is in the community repository). For who does not know, Surfraw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfraw) is a script written by Julian Assange that lets you perform searches across many engines and internet sites. Every kind of search is controlled by a set of scripts called elvi. We can also write our custom elvis, and save them in the ~/.config/surfraw/elvi/ folder. I have written some elvis for my personal use, among them this simple script to search this mailing list, which I share here in case someone finds it useful: #+begin_src sh :shebang #!/bin/sh :tangle ~/.config/surfraw/elvi/orgmode-ml # DESC: search Org Mode mailing list archives # elvis: orgmode-ml -- Search Org Mode mailing list archives (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/) . surfraw || exit 1 w3_usage_hook () { cat <<EOF Usage: $w3_argv0 [search words]... Description: Search in Org Mode mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/) EOF w3_global_usage } w3_config w3_parse_args "$@" if test -z "$w3_args"; then w3_browse_url "https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/" else escaped_args=`w3_url_of_arg $w3_args` w3_browse_url "https://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?idxname=emacs-orgmode&sort=score&result=normal&max=20&submit=Search!&query=${escaped_args}" fi #+end_src Best regards, Juan Manuel
Hi Juan, Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes: > I have written some elvis for my > personal use, among them this simple script to search this mailing list, > which I share here in case someone finds it useful: Neat! You might want to write another one for the public-inbox archive: E.g. https://orgmode.org/list/?q=Juan+Manuel+Mac%C3%ADas
Bastien, > You might want to write another one for the public-inbox archive: > > E.g. https://orgmode.org/list/?q=Juan+Manuel+Mac%C3%ADas okay, i'll bite: what *is* the difference between https://orgmode.org/list and https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/ ? cheers, Greg
Hi Greg, Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu> writes: > okay, i'll bite: what *is* the difference between > https://orgmode.org/list and > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/ ? https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/ is the official archive of the GNU mailing list called emacs-orgmode@gnu.org. https://orgmode.org/list/ is a public-inbox instance giving access to the complete archive of the emacs-orgmode@gnu.org mailing list. From my experience, searches on https://orgmode.org/list/ are both more reliable and faster. Linking to an article on public-inbox is also handy, because it relies on the message-id of the email, so while https://lists.gnu.org/archive is the official place for GNU mailing lists archives, https://orgmode.org/list/ is the service we link to both in Worg and Woof! (https://updates.orgmode.org) I hope this is not confusing.
Bastien,
> I hope this is not confusing.
no, that's perfectly clear. thanks.
Greg
Hi Bastien,
Bastien writes:
> Neat!
>
> You might want to write another one for the public-inbox archive:
>
> E.g. https://orgmode.org/list/?q=Juan+Manuel+Mac%C3%ADas
I was unaware that searches in the public-box archive are faster...
Thank you very much for the advice :-)
Best regards,
Juan Manuel