Re: Emacs interface to Recoll other than Helm?

[Angel de Vicente <angelv@iac.es>]

Sorry for the double post. I thought the post with the attached images
had been rejected so I post it again with the images as links to
some URL in the Internet. The rest of the message is basically
the same.



Angel de Vicente <angelv@iac.es> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 10:34 AM Angel de Vicente <angelv@iac.es> wrote:
>>
>>> but right now I'm using Ivy
>>> (http://oremacs.com/swiper/) and if possible I would like to avoid
>>> installing Helm just for the integration with Recoll (plus, I'm not sure
>>> if it will clash somehow with the installed Ivy?).
>>>
>>
>> You will find Ivy-backend based plugins in the counsel library. About your
>> question specific to Ivy+Recoll, it's already out there by the Ivy author
>> himself: https://oremacs.com/2015/07/27/counsel-recoll/
>
> Funny, I had seen that webpage already and I tried to use the function
> in there, but it was giving an error (Error 127, whatever that is), but
> then I searched in the counsel.el file in my current version, and the
> function counsel-recoll is already defined there! Good, so with a fresh
> Emacs (I was overriding the counsel-recoll function) it works, but is
> not very convenient for my needs. counsel-recoll will give a dynamic
> list of files that match your search, and then you have to open the file
> and perform a search (with swiper, for example) to see if that was the
> stuff you were looking for (see the attached file counsel-recoll.png).
>
> But for this sort of thing, I think that it is nicer to have a buffer
> with the files where matches are found and with some context given. This
> is, for example, the type of output I get when doing a multi-occur find
> with Projectile (see attached file counsel-recoll-mo.png), and if
> possible I would like to try and get something like that, which I think
> it will more useful.
>
> Thanks,

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Ángel de Vicente
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