Re: gnus, swish-e, nnir - jumping to article (G T) issue

[Andreas Seltenreich]

Matt Ford <matt@dancingfrog.co.uk> writes:

>   debug(error (error "Trying to require a method that doesn't exist"))
>   signal(error ("Trying to require a method that doesn't exist"))
>   error("Trying to require a method that doesn't exist")
>   gnus-server-opened((nil "-ephemeral" (nil-address nil)))
>   gnus-check-server((nil "-ephemeral" (nil-address nil)))
>   gnus-group-read-ephemeral-group("mail.sent" nil t (#<killed buffer>
>   . summary) nil (432$ (let* ((cur ...) (group ...) (backend-number
>   ...) server backend-group) (setq server (n$
>   gnus-summary-nnir-goto-thread()
>   call-interactively(gnus-summary-nnir-goto-thread)
>
> How can I further debug?
>
> My .gnus.el is very simple with not much more than the following,
>
>   (setq gnus-select-method '(nnml ""))
>   ;; use a fancy search engine
>   (require 'nnir)
>   (setq nnir-search-engine 'swish-e)
>   (setq nnir-mail-backend gnus-select-method)
>
> I'm wondering if this has something to do with the fact that nnml is
> my primary news server - but I've no good reason for thinking this.

You were right, the function nnir-group-server didn't do the right
thing when called on the primary select method.  It should work with
version 7.17 and newer from CVS:

<http://quimby.gnus.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~gnus/contrib/nnir.el?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain>

Mind testing it?

Thanks,
andreas