Hi, On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 20:06, Arun Isaac <arunis...@systemreboot.net> wrote:
> I looked up xapian's features at https://xapian.org/features and it is > quite impressive. I was introduced to xapian through notmuch. notmuch > does not utilize xapian to the fullest and I therefore ended up > underestimating its value. Of particular importance might be the > following. > > - Relevance feedback - given one or more documents, Xapian can suggest > the most relevant index terms to expand a query, suggest related > documents, categorise documents, etc. > - Phrase and proximity searching - users can search for words occurring > in an exact phrase or within a specified number of words, either in a > specified order, or in any order. > - Supports stemming of search terms (e.g. a search for "football" would > match documents which mention "footballs" or "footballer") Yes Xapian rocks! :-) > For the time being, since we don't have xapian bindings, I think we > should settle for sqlite's full text search capabilities. > > https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html Thank you for the pointer. I am looking at it. Maybe a good ol' SQL query could improve. :-) All the best, simon
