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Earlier, the command F s (mh-search) was introduced which helps
you find messages that lie buried in your folders (voir la section Organizing Your Mail with Folders). This
chapter covers this command in more detail. Several commands are used to
compose the search criteria and to start searching. A couple of them can be
found in the ‘Search’ menu.
Move to ‘To:’ header field (mh-to-field).
Another few commands are available in the MH-Folder buffer resulting from a search.
Jump to the previous folder marker (mh-index-previous-folder).
Visit original folder from where the message at point was found
(mh-index-visit-folder).
There is one option from the ‘mh-search’ customization group used in searching.
mh-search-program
Search program that MH-E shall use (default: ‘Auto-detect’).
The following hook is available.
mh-search-mode-hook
Hook run upon entry to mh-search-mode (default: nil).
The following face is available.
mh-search-folder
Folder heading face in MH-Folder buffers created by searches.
The command F s (mh-search-folder) helps you find messages in
your entire corpus of mail. You can search for messages to or from a
particular person or about a particular subject. In fact, you can also
search for messages containing selected strings in any arbitrary header
field or any string found within the messages.
Out of the box, MH-E uses pick to find messages. With a little
extra effort, you can set an indexing program which rewards you with
extremely quick results. The drawback is that sometimes the index does not
contain the words you're looking for. You can still use pick in
these situations.
You are prompted for the folder to search. This can be ‘all’ to search all folders. Note that the search works recursively on the listed folder.
Next, an MH-Search buffer appears where you can enter search criteria.
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Search window
Edit this template by entering your search criteria in an appropriate header field that is already there, or create a new field yourself. If the string you're looking for could be anywhere in a message, then place the string underneath the row of dashes.
As an example, let's say that we want to find messages from Ginnean about horseback riding in the Kosciusko National Park (Australia) during January, 1994. Normally we would start with a broad search and narrow it down if necessary to produce a manageable amount of data, but we'll cut to the chase and create a fairly restrictive set of criteria as follows:
From: ginnean To: Cc: Date: Jan 1994 Subject: -------- horse kosciusko |
As with MH-Letter mode, MH-Search provides commands like C-c C-f C-t
(mh-to-field) to help you fill in the blanks. Voir la section Editing the Message.
If you find that you do the same thing over and over when editing the search
template, you may wish to bind some shortcuts to keys. This can be done with
the variable mh-search-mode-hook, which is called when F s is
run on a new pattern.
To perform the search, type C-c C-c (mh-index-do-search).
Sometimes you're searching for text that is either not indexed, or hasn't
been indexed yet. In this case you can override the default method with the
pick method by running the command C-c C-p (mh-pick-do-search).
The messages that are found are put in a temporary sub-folder of
‘+mhe-index’ and are displayed in an MH-Folder buffer. This buffer is
special because it displays messages from multiple folders; each set of
messages from a given folder has a heading with the folder name. The
appearance of the heading can be modified by customizing the face
mh-search-folder. You can jump back and forth between the headings
using the commands <TAB> (mh-index-next-folder) and
S-<TAB> (mh-index-previous-folder).
In addition, the command v (mh-index-visit-folder) can be used
to visit the folder of the message at point. Initially, only the messages
that matched the search criteria are displayed in the folder. While the
temporary buffer has its own set of message numbers, the actual messages
numbers are shown in the visited folder. Thus, the command v is useful
to find the actual message number of an interesting message, or to view
surrounding messages with the command F r
mh-rescan-folder. Voir la section Organizing Your Mail with Folders.
Because this folder is temporary, you'll probably get in the habit of
killing it when you're done with F k (mh-kill-folder).
Voir la section Organizing Your Mail with Folders.
You can regenerate the results by running F s with a prefix argument.
Note: This command uses an ‘X-MHE-Checksum:’ header field to cache the
MD5 checksum of a message. This means that if an incoming message already
contains an ‘X-MHE-Checksum:’ field, that message might not be found by
this command. The following procmail recipe avoids this problem by
renaming the existing header field:
:0 wf | formail -R "X-MHE-Checksum" "X-Old-MHE-Checksum" |
Voir la section Limiting Display, for an alternative interface to searching.
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