Re: Elisp: Search a File Without Visiting?

[taashlo@sandia.gov]

Sam Halliday <devnull@example.com> writes:
> taashlo AT sandia DOT gov wrote:
> > I've written some elisp so that when I hit a key
> > sequence (C-ct) a thesaurus lookup of the word
> <snip>
> > [1] ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext02/mthes10.zip
> 
> this is not a direct answer to your question; but are you aware of the
> aiksaurus project? [http://aiksaurus.sourceforge.net] which is a GPL'ed
> command line and GUI frontend to the gutenberg thesaurus which you have
> referenced (they distribute a much smaller binary data file with their
> package). if you did not know of aiksaurus' existence, then maybe its
> funtionality can aid your elisp.
> 
> i am not aware of any elisp wrapper to that program, but if you intent
> to write one, i would most certainly be interrested in using it!! :-D

Sam, I will probably look in to this in the future, but for now I'm
going to try using Kai's idea of using grep to do the search.

Thanks,
Tad