Re: [Orgmode] Searching inside of attachments (pdf, odt)?

2009-10-14 Thread Karl Maihofer
Hi, Am 13.10.09 19:09, schrieb Samuel Wales: Have you tried the agenda search feature yet? If not, perhaps trying it first will help ground the discussion. OK, I had another look at the org agenda search feature and I agree that it would be much smarter to use the already implemented org

Re: [Orgmode] Searching inside of attachments (pdf, odt)?

2009-10-13 Thread Karl Maihofer
Hi Samuel, Samuel Wales samolog...@gmail.com schrieb: My idea is to use ordinary agenda search like this: 1) agenda search displays the headline that has the attachment. 2) org uses an alist to determine the correct textifier according to extension. e.g. '((.pdf . pdf2text)).

Re: [Orgmode] Searching inside of attachments (pdf, odt)?

2009-10-13 Thread Tim O'Callaghan
FWIW I think this might be handled easier if all that happened would be a grep on the attachments, or directories. The usual grep interface can be used and then it becomes a fast general purpose data mining extension. I can see it being used to search a codebase or website for a text string. I

Re: [Orgmode] Searching inside of attachments (pdf, odt)?

2009-10-13 Thread Samuel Wales
Hi, My idea is to keep it simple at first. Everybody will come up with great ways to integrate with his favorite IR tool. Here I want to focus on the org interface. The org interface can be the same as any other agenda search, with all the same controls. The back end can use special-purpose

[Orgmode] Searching inside of attachments (pdf, odt)?

2009-10-12 Thread Karl Maihofer
Hi, does anyone use something like Lucene[*] with orgmode to search inside attachments like pdf- and odt-files? At the moment I use org for time-planning and a stand-alone Confluence wiki for knowledge management (which uses Lucene to index attachments). My knowledge management mainly