From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Search engines (was: HTML-Info design) Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 19:00:16 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: <87fvbzejtb.fsf_-_@building.gnus.org> References: <871tnr1gqo.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <83bnmvowdb.fsf@gnu.org> <83ppbanqhe.fsf@gnu.org> <87vbl2xigp.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <83ioh2nlow.fsf@gnu.org> <87sig6xech.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <83fvc5ni0u.fsf@gnu.org> <87k31fwwyv.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <87bnmq9ibf.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <87lhlrx5fc.fsf@building.gnus.org> <877fxb9821.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <87oaqn26vs.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <874msfg6p6.fsf@building.gnus.org> <874msf9119.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <87tx0fbs06.fsf@violet.siamics.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419789657 2263 80.91.229.3 (28 Dec 2014 18:00:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 18:00:57 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 28 19:00:51 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5I95-0005FW-1p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 19:00:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59151 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5I94-0005fM-Df for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 13:00:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44670) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5I8p-0005fH-Kh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 13:00:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5I8l-0001jT-Jj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 13:00:35 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:45192) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5I8l-0001jH-Co for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 13:00:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5I8j-00054v-TA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 19:00:29 +0100 Original-Received: from 2.150.68.69.tmi.telenormobil.no ([2.150.68.69]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 19:00:29 +0100 Original-Received: from larsi by 2.150.68.69.tmi.telenormobil.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 19:00:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2.150.68.69.tmi.telenormobil.no Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAMFBMVEVHicja5eT///7///9M jspNjbx0epFilcZimMyrq7YLDQ5BdrExPFpDh8dWlMlWltBDJEBgAAABWElEQVQ4jcXUL27DMBQG cIPSgSQo0C4azS4wENyRBVWKNGKpUunU3aBBm5JIld4FBnKFaheYCnqBsWGPFi17z//mJC0a2Kcq qb+fHYNYYTcXwv4bhBtk+uegjgF4nDb8OuKpSGshLOxWACBXIOVOSsBLYyESQkQi5hEXHP8KPrcg ARpck0I93DyLAHAX4OnDCIRLLILMWbYZ5MneE5btKW8fo7QaJrWFScsMBIXPFcKwnM3yPL9lzMGR yvw3LNFwHLYUDcdJbQAfbEe9Sf6pwU2/632UUgQ0fxHUff+tgXr11U9h2lu4zxdK+e5UVS+0iQZl AUsbA7iAnlUFeSYolYZTCNuNA1UNe4JiAlvzaotyBO6dF3oJHgM/24OVMI8GyhAUFsWy1aAXmXux 1Mdp39pzFeZA8XAI8t51HYIfd2EQurP5M7zKtZQriRnDei0PhARwNsnFL8MPu3QqLeJkL3kAAAAA SUVORK5CYII= Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: burn's _304 (Moon Base Big)_: "Wire!Red_Barked_Tree!01-Please_Take" User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tQSy1XNYmS42SPPAO8te9fK0xG4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:180761 Archived-At: An interesting problem is Emacs and searching. The various Gnus mail backends have various searching interfaces, but it would be nice to have a more general Emacs searching mechanism, where you can search parts of directory trees, etc. Has anybody looked into hooking into the various OS-level search interfaces? Spotlight in OS X, the Explorer thingie in Windows and in the various GNU/Linux distributions? A basic search engine is easy to implement (I've done it a couple of times), but the main work is in understanding the various file formats and keeping the reverse index updated when files change. If there were OS-level search stuff we could just hook into, that would obviously be better. And provide searching in the Emacs manuals. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/