Re: John's amazing indexing posts

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

Thanks Matt,

That is also my impression of where this will go. Eventually this will
move towards a database search engine, e.g. like Oleg's project at
https://github.com/wvxvw/sphinx-mode. I am not sure precisely which
direction though. Swish-e is nice, but at the moment you cannot
incrementally update the database, and full indexing is required every
time. I am not sure that is fixable, and swish-e does not do
unicode. There are half a dozen or so candidates to go forward on, and
they all have some pros and cons to think about.

It has a lot of other applications in org too, e.g. a file-system wide
agenda, tag search, etc...


Matt Price writes:

> Not sure if everyone has seen John's latest post about indexing org files
> with swish-e:
>
> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/07/06/Indexing-headlines-in-org-files-with-swish-e-with-laser-sharp-results/
>
> It's very impressive.  It strikes me as a step towards an incredibly
> ambitious project that would bring file indexing inside of Emacs -- so it
> would not longer be necessary to go out to a shell or a Desktop Search tool
> in order to find files that contain particular search terms.  I'm looking
> forward to your next steps, John!
>
> Matt

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