From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Indexed search with grep-like output Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:59:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293937167 5430 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2011 02:59:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 02:59:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel devel To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 02 03:59:23 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 1PZEAE-0005Lp-7Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 03:59:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38852 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZEAD-0005iI-OX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:59:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59724 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZEA9-0005iD-1w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:59:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZEA8-0007wi-2i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:59:16 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:42365 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZEA8-0007wc-0H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:59:16 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAP54H01Ld/TY/2dsb2JhbACkR3S7OoVKBIRljhs X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.60,261,1291611600"; d="scan'208";a="86887491" Original-Received: from 75-119-244-216.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.244.216]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 01 Jan 2011 21:59:14 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6387858DFC; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 21:59:14 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sun, 2 Jan 2011 03:22:24 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:134146 Archived-At: > What I am saying is we could probably do it the other way round: Use > the same backend for the functionality of locate, id-util and in > addition free text search. I have no idea what that means, but I'll assume we agree: have a command that can run a variety of external tools like `locate', or GNU id, or Beagle, or ... If you really mean to provide various commands that all end up running one particular external tool, then I don't understand why you'd want that, since AFAICT there is no standard "external search tool" (there may exist such a thing on some platforms, but we'd want those commands to work on all platforms, so they'll necessarily need to support various backends). Stefan