GNU bug report logs - #66885
29.1; gnus search with mu always returns empty

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Britt Anderson <britt <at> b3l.xyz>

Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2023 16:04:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.1

Done: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #32 received at 66885 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Britt Anderson <britt <at> uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Britt Anderson <britt <at> b3l.xyz>,
 "66885 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <66885 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#66885: 29.1; gnus search with mu always returns empty
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2023 11:46:43 -0800

Britt Anderson <britt <at> uwaterloo.ca> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Your configuration looks correct (your configuration also reveals an
>> annoying redundancy in gnus-search, which is that most nnmail
>> backends have a "directory" value that can and should be used as the
>> value of remove-prefix).
>>
>> Basically, if you're seeing "a maildir "y2023" that lives in archives"
>> as a Gnus group, then this is just a bug in gnus-search's mu handling,
>> plain and simple.
>
> I think the bug starts on line 1952 of gnus-search.el.gz (when opened in
> emacs). It is in the definition of the method for

(Thank you for continuing to bug-hunt, this looks promising, I've just
gotten back from traveling and will set this up to test soon...)
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