[GNC] Searching mailing lists

[John McKeon]

Update. These latest FileIn's will alleviate the need for the workspace
step. The mailing lists are now available from the Inbox Talk browser's
settings menu :) Pretty neat.

On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM John McKeon <mckeonmathematical at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>
>
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> John McKeon
>


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