Uday Reddy wrote at 09:05 +0000 on Jan 19, 2012: > John Hein writes: > > M-s is a wonderful search tool for a vm folder, but it searches the > > encoded mime (i.e., the gobbledy-gook) instead of the decoded mime. > > Given the ever increasing [it seems to me] usage of base64 even for > > plain text messages (particularly from certain mobile devices), I > > wonder how hard it would be to update the search to decode mime as it > > chugs along. It's fairly rare that I need to search for a string in > > encoded mime ;) > > M-s is just an interface to the Emacs search engine. So it is quite > unintelligent. > > V C text is the better way to go. We also need to get V C text to work with > external search engines (IMAP servers and mairix etc.) > > We will eventually recode M-s to work with virtual folders. That will make > it a bit more useful.
Yes, V C text is helpful. Good reminder. It doesn't always work right for me, but I'll have to dig into that separately. And I often need regex searches which it seems V C text doesn't give. I still like the incremental highlighted search, with visible context (and regex and case insensitivity), I get with M-S.
