From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Indexed search with grep-like output Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 12:40:10 +0100 Message-ID: References: <831v4wpcue.fsf@gnu.org> <83wrmone2h.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293968446 14745 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2011 11:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 11:40:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 02 12:40:42 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZMIh-00016A-Vr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:40:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36847 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZMIh-0003Mr-9P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 06:40:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44798 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZMIb-0003K1-Qc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 06:40:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZMIa-00019q-Ci for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 06:40:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:51575) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZMIa-00019N-6m; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 06:40:32 -0500 Original-Received: by ewy27 with SMTP id 27so6652174ewy.0 for ; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 03:40:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=Hu2yPoNeeRkxxjLZBfNdxcG+F46dI92KWxvocQ+Gync=; b=susylwtB7gG1nV5mq3GtaXM/RFhyS97IqCsnAG3PnJYs7DG4kf7g4H1HUJLdkAuesm Vcj9+iVeHXvxxsiqpuro2KBNF2ZgGBubBJbqZVbce2+rTQpTfsMU8wzJefvO7Vr1oxmQ itfeClAKuyglqDn1hmRMo7w1gS0VtjYFI/OtE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=w8LTSksLsvNH9s82oNJPcX/xYVRTq/49JrHMxU2Io5s7iVw8zc2ko3qVEweYRc13/3 ouFCEb0Vr6IFa6OR7Kd/hviWkRexKXl4C045cjQNh/AQsQKlJjEiWDNaZaD8wvt9MeCX 9hbwu80vLva9RpFFR3BBNNgCM1SWLZtXujTJA= Original-Received: by 10.213.21.131 with SMTP id j3mr5820013ebb.58.1293968430654; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 03:40:30 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.213.20.148 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 03:40:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:134158 Archived-At: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Lennart Borgman >> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 05:12:32 +0100 >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> I do not know about other search engines, but at least Windows Desktop >> Search allows you to restrict the search later. > > Because it's dog slow. Is it? Can you give an example? I read that people have had good experience with Lucene and large amounts of files. Have you tested Lucene? > `lid' is very fast, so if you don't want to > index each tree separately, you can filter the output (which includes > the full absolute file name) in Emacs, in the process filter that > accepts `lid's output. Is not that slow since it requires a lot process switching?