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: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:43:15 -0500 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 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294263811 4922 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2011 21:43:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 21:43:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: srackham@gmail.com, Lennart Borgman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 05 22:43:27 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 1Pab8g-0008Br-Uy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:43:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45817 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pab8g-0004Cg-OQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:43:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51383 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pab8b-0004CI-VF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:43:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pab8a-000309-M3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:43:21 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:58807) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pab8a-0002zy-JU; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:43:20 -0500 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p05LhGfE017375; Wed, 5 Jan 2011 16:43:16 -0500 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1594E130519; Wed, 5 Jan 2011 16:43:16 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:11:06 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3731=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:134307 Archived-At: >> If you want to then feel free to add support for ID-utils to >> idxsearch.el. It should typically be a file on its own. The file >> idxdocindex.el is a good starting example. > I'd rather extend id-utils.el, and eventually add that to Emacs. All things being equal, I'd rather add a package that has abstractions to work with various indexers, than one that only works for one particular kind of indexer, especially since we're unlikely to convince all potential users of such a tool to switch to GNU id if they're currently using something else. Stefan