[GNC] Searching mailing lists

[John McKeon]

Hi folks,
Long time lurker here. This mailing list search problem has been solved by
the really smart folks who maintain Squeak <https://squeak.org/> Smalltalk.
The tool they have developed (to access their own mailing lists) needs a
few small modifications to access this list's archives.
Here are the steps:
0 - Download the attached files
1 - Install Squeak <https://squeak.org> and start it.
2 - From the Tools menu, click on Install Squeak Inbox Talk. It should open
a browser on the Squeak developers mailing list. You can close that
browser.
3 - From the Tools menu, open a *File List* and navigate to the folder
holding the attached files. Selecting each one and clicking the *FileIn* button
on the File List's toolbar will make the necessary changes.
4 - Lastly, from the Tools menu, click Workspace and paste in the
following:
  *(TalkInboxBrowser on: TalkInbox gnucashUsers) open.*
Right-click the text and select Do-it from the context menu.
This should open a browser on the gnucash user list. From its settings
menu, change the lookback range to get older messages to Search :)

Hope this helps (and I hope it works for you :).

Happy trails,
John


On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM flywire <flywire0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2025-February/115508.html
> Derek
> Atkins wrote:
> >
> > I tend to only upgrade the distro every couple years.  "If it
> > aint broke...."  So THAT is why code is still running such an old distro.
>
>
> That is not the reality. It is an old platform with issues without a
> reasonable migration path. This is exactly why many old forums are archived
> when they are ultimately upgraded.
>
>
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mailing_Lists&oldid=13014#Searching_the_List_Archives
> (15 September 2017‎)
>
> > Currently, there is no on-site mechanism to search the mailing lists *and
> > the search link on the archive page is broken*.
>
>
> Is updating https://lists.gnucash.org/search/?idxinfo=gnucash-user
> achievable in
> the interim?
>
> Contrary to Liz's experience with duckduckgo I don't have success with
> Google.
>
> Regards
> [image: image.png]
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John McKeon
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