On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:11:00PM -0500, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Chris Palmer <chris_AT_noncombatant.org> wrote:
> > We need a desktop text indexing system that sucks less.
>
> grep
...is not an example of an indexing system. While such a system would be
useful, I'm doubtful that a ``suckless'' one could be made. It
inherently involves lots of parsers for different file type metadata,
which either introduces lots of code or lots of dependencies.
Received on Wed Mar 03 2010 - 18:24:03 UTC
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