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From: Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: indexing files?
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:11:01 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1ed6ff7b-efe5-4e30-95b8-7e26bfec4735@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.16861.1394435343.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

On Monday, March 10, 2014 12:40:33 PM UTC+5:30, Jambunathan K wrote:
> Martin writes:

> > Hi there,
> > since a few weeks I'm using mu4e and I find the search thing very
> > useful.
> > I wonder if there would also be something like mu4e not for emails but
> > for files in my Home directory?  If you can give me hints, I would be
> > very excited. :)

> Emacs has a search engine and it is called rgrep and it doesn't rely on
> indices.  If you really want index - in that you have a custom markup
> that explicityl specifies what an index is - you can go with etags or
> ctags.

Ive been getting more and more confused with all the greps in emacs:
rgrep, lgrep, rzgrep some others Ive forgotten
not to mention good-ol grep

Any pointers to which/where/how of these??


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-19  5:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-10  6:35 indexing files? Martin
2014-03-10  7:10 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-10  7:43   ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-10  7:34 ` Charles Philip Chan
2014-03-10 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-03-10 19:47 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-03-17  4:23 ` Danil Orlov
     [not found] ` <mailman.16861.1394435343.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-03-19  5:11   ` Rusi [this message]
     [not found]     ` <mailman.17483.1395206199.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-03-19  5:27       ` Rusi
2014-03-19 17:17     ` Jambunathan K
     [not found] <mailman.16858.1394434284.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-03-19  5:03 ` Rusi
2014-03-19  7:01   ` Martin
2014-03-19 10:12     ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-03-19 18:00       ` Martin
2014-03-19 18:21         ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-03-19 18:27           ` Martin
2014-03-19 18:36             ` Michael Heerdegen
     [not found]   ` <mailman.17491.1395212486.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-03-19  7:29     ` Rusi

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