From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Indexed search with grep-like output Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 05:12:32 +0100 Message-ID: References: <831v4wpcue.fsf@gnu.org> <83wrmone2h.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293941585 18085 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2011 04:13:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 04:13:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 02 05:13:00 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZFJU-0004Il-Ba for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 05:13:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59542 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZFJT-0002bh-EA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:12:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45009 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZFJO-0002bW-MF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:12:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZFJN-0000LL-KO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:12:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:37602) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZFJN-0000LC-Eg; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:12:53 -0500 Original-Received: by ewy27 with SMTP id 27so6608715ewy.0 for ; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:12:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ksrVY9impbzdtgvpfq5gBBidPHwyFJohOQ15e41/P24=; b=URMTELRJjXv5Qrl619/JLYhpBBAzi6jSf4MOwJRF0YcfcbsGJ4uT7kyvwIAYZ7Nl4o 4Dp5YHga3eW6cxVoligNU3sjAuWAIa1eHE96o6qsHiUuCL0QXNLcp6UUwbKH5wKkUsrK I8sUhJOrm/+x88Dm50g8rayXaf05EdYpIxblU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=nIPqCHIcxnkinPm5ZlNocoTy/b4KHhLKpRN3Vlnx6ICqkgt7osIQ0aF73Li+DeKydF CvdiwjBeg9RBDiyypJA+2xairPAzkHwaBztHtlBGyNCpL/rL3vnkhlysPozI713PowAH LmHeNlGGJoKoFQ9t/nhEcOPqeRh/ItBWSs+vA= Original-Received: by 10.213.29.16 with SMTP id o16mr5806804ebc.58.1293941572517; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:12:52 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.213.20.148 with HTTP; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 20:12:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <83wrmone2h.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:134151 Archived-At: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Lennart Borgman >> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 00:03:46 +0100 >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> Does id-util.el allow you to restrict your query to a directory tree? > > Yes: you need to index each such tree separately. =C2=A0`lid', the comman= d > that queries the data base, accepts a file name of an index as its > command-line argument (and its Emacs front-end accepts that as well). Thanks. I do not know about other search engines, but at least Windows Desktop Search allows you to restrict the search later. (This is used in idxsearch.el.)