I have used glimpse for indexing my email archive. It works pretty well, but requires indexing runs and also the index files are quite large. Good, though.
And for a bonus, it comes with agrep, if I recall correctly, a fantastic "almost grep" tool for somewhat fuzzy searches. Recently, on my system, glimpse was in conflict with some other package. As an emacs user, my computing experience was recently improved exponentially by the utility "global-ff.el" that incrementally searches for files on the entire system by reference to the indexes of "locate": http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GlobalFF. It does not search contents, but does globbing including partial directory / subdirectory names, quite niftily and speedily. I have to remember to thank that guy. Emacs also does a pretty nice "grep-find" that searches a tree for content of files. Alan Davis -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED] "An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent." ---Lord Raleigh (aka John William Strutt), or else his son,
