Re: Indexed search with grep-like output

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Lennart Borgman
<lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>> I have now added support for Google Desktop Search too (the grepping
>>> is not added there yet though). It feels snappier, but the timing
>>> tells me it should be about the same as Windows Desktop Search. Wonder
>>> if I did something wrong... ;-)
>>
>> Clearly, the wrong thing you did is focus on non-Free tools.
>
> ;-)
>
> That is not my fault. Those are the only tools I could find that are
> easy to setup on w32.
>
> Anyway I hope the structure is good enough to add free tools. (For
> someone using GNU/Linux probably much easier. At least that is my
> impression. Nearly all non-trivial free tools are a pain to setup on
> w32. And that is part of the reason they are not gaining ground, at
> least that is my guess.)


As Eli suggested docindexer (which is free) and there is an installer
for that I added support for docindexer too.

It works nicely for what it does. However unfortunately it is still
unusable since the binary version of docindexer currently does not let
you tell which files extensions it should index as text. I have asked
the author/maintainer of docindexer, Stuart Rackham, for help and hope
he will fix it.