From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs vs vs.net Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 04:33:18 +0200 Organization: JURTA Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <8765i050cx.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <3f9f2256$1@news.microsoft.com> <87ekwvu4x3.fsf@smtp.wegointer.net> <87d6ce6yrl.fsf@smtp.wegointer.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067913994 1811 80.91.224.253 (4 Nov 2003 02:46:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 02:46:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 04 03:46:32 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AGrDE-00075h-00 for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2003 03:46:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AGrCP-0002xU-T6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2003 21:45:41 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+GiVZ9GMbfmKBTZ2chyT//9XU98= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.235.32.241 Original-X-Trace: news.estpak.ee 1067913219 80.235.32.241 (4 Nov 2003 04:33:39 +0200) Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@estpak.ee Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!freenix!teaser.fr!teleglobe.net!news.estpak.ee!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117842 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13780 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13780 Vagn Johansen writes: > Jason Earl writes: >> Vagn Johansen writes: >>> That should have been "Gnus does NOT support searching in multiple >>> groups." >> >> For searching I use find and grep :). > > Well, then all mail readers that store mail messages as text files > ".. has all sorts of tools for plowing through huge piles of email" (as > you write). Still, find and grep are useless if mail readers store mail messages in quoted-printable or base64 formats. > All my emails are a knowledge base along with a lot of small text files I > write. I am planning to convert my text files into emacs-wiki files for > easier navigation. > > Searching is important to me, that is why I am working on my own search > software to search Gnus mails and a lot of other file types: txt, html, > mp3, doc, etc. Searching is only one type of application for knowledge processing. Another type is category-based directories (most famous types of these applications are Google and Yahoo). While searching is more easy to use, however, it often produces less relevant results than those that can be found in manually created indexes. I think that category-based directories are more useful for personal information indexing because of their manageable size. I am working now on the Emacs package that organizes personal information into categories and displays them under different views. -- http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ee/