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: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:11:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1ed6ff7b-efe5-4e30-95b8-7e26bfec4735@googlegroups.com> References: <87y50ipnm5.fsf@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395206111 2286 80.91.229.3 (19 Mar 2014 05:15:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 05:15:11 +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 06:15:21 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 1WQ8qW-00043J-De for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 06:15:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38677 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQ8qV-0003tJ-VJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 01:15:19 -0400 X-Received: by 10.50.129.74 with SMTP id nu10mr10020069igb.7.1395205862104; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:11:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.66.133 with SMTP id f5mr542398igt.13.1395205861858; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:11:01 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!ur14no9837661igb.0!news-out.google.com!dd7ni76igb.0!nntp.google.com!l13no8144083iga.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 05:11:01 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:204334 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:96605 Archived-At: 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??