From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: indexing files? Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:29:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4073abd9-75c0-4107-b435-07dfb9dcd954@googlegroups.com> References: <2539e4e4-66fe-4f04-9330-12b9958da35b@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395214209 18556 80.91.229.3 (19 Mar 2014 07:30:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:30:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 19 08:30:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1WQAx8-00045U-NB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 08:30:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39005 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQAx8-0003qZ-7G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 03:30:18 -0400 X-Received: by 10.182.153.68 with SMTP id ve4mr362023obb.39.1395214179817; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:29:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.154.106 with SMTP id vn10mr558637igb.2.1395214179714; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:29:39 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!l13no8177905iga.0!news-out.google.com!dd7ni76igb.0!nntp.google.com!l13no8177897iga.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.23.45; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.23.45 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:29:39 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:204338 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96609 Archived-At: On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 12:31:06 PM UTC+5:30, Martin wrote: > Rusi writes: > > Now I prefer recoll > > [I forget the reasons for not liking tracker -- sorry!] > As I can see, there is only helm-recoll in the packages here. but i > don't figure out how it works. Do you have any config hints for me? > Doing M-x helm-recoll asks for a search query, but giving that nothing > happens (no buffer with results will be opened). > Any hints? Sorry I didnt make it clear -- this is not in emacs. Yes there is helm-recoll -- but Ive not tried it I just use recoll at the command line (or Alt-F2) Also for simple file-name searching locate works good And works well inside emacs (M-x locate ) Both locate and recoll need a make/update index step which is - cpu and time intensive - tends to get stale My vague recollection is that tracker does this automatically but I found it too intrusive.