Re: Anyone use 3rd party search tools w/org-mode?

2019-11-13 Thread Roland Everaert
It is not a question of searching and replacing strings in one file, but searching for a document or a set of documents among tenth of document or even more, possibly in various format. Roland. briangpowell . writes: > Emacs (shortened name from "Editor Macros") has the fastest Regular > Expressi

Re: Anyone use 3rd party search tools w/org-mode?

2019-11-12 Thread briangpowell .
Emacs (shortened name from "Editor Macros") has the fastest Regular Expression engine in the world--when you compare the engines that are programmed to find and display character strings AS YOU TYPE THEM. So, just hoping you keep that in mind: As far as editing documents and searching documents an

Re: Anyone use 3rd party search tools w/org-mode?

2019-11-12 Thread Russell Adams
To further explain my setup, I have three libraries of files Personal, Technical and Business. Personal is all personal data including Org files, Technical is all whitepapers and vendor documentation, and Business is Org projects and other matters. Recoll is used to search all of them. In my shell

Re: Anyone use 3rd party search tools w/org-mode?

2019-11-12 Thread Roland Everaert
I had a quick look at the recoll and I notice that there is a python API to update/create index. Maybe something could be developped using the python package recently released by Karl Voit, to feed a recoll index with org data. Roland. Roland Everaert writes: > Good to know, I will have a look

Re: Anyone use 3rd party search tools w/org-mode?

2019-11-08 Thread Roland Everaert
Good to know, I will have a look at it when time permit. Russell Adams writes: > Recoll is xaipan based. > > On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 08:28:22AM -0500, John Kitchin wrote: >> It could be dead. At the time I worked with it, the project had already >> switched to a library form that was not directly

Re: Anyone use 3rd party search tools w/org-mode?

2019-11-08 Thread Russell Adams
Recoll is xaipan based. On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 08:28:22AM -0500, John Kitchin wrote: > It could be dead. At the time I worked with it, the project had already > switched to a library form that was not directly useful to me, and the > original swish project was not being further developed. These d

Re: Anyone use 3rd party search tools w/org-mode?

2019-11-08 Thread John Kitchin
It could be dead. At the time I worked with it, the project had already switched to a library form that was not directly useful to me, and the original swish project was not being further developed. These days, I would look to something like xapian or postgresql I think (assuming sqlite is not suff

Re: Anyone use 3rd party search tools w/org-mode?

2019-11-08 Thread Roland Everaert
Is it me or Swish-e is dead? The url www.swish-e.org, leads to a whisky e-shop oO. Eric Abrahamsen writes: > John Kitchin writes: > >> The way I got Swish to index org files was to create a script that >> generated an xml file >> (https://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/07/06/Indexing-headl

Re: Anyone use 3rd party search tools w/org-mode?

2019-11-07 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
John Kitchin writes: > The way I got Swish to index org files was to create a script that > generated an xml file > (https://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/07/06/Indexing-headlines-in-org-files-with-swish-e-with-laser-sharp-results/) > or html > (http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/

Re: Anyone use 3rd party search tools w/org-mode?

2019-11-06 Thread Adam Porter
Eric Abrahamsen writes: > I think this last point is key. Most full-text search engines provide > config options for defining fields, or "facets", which in theory we > could set up to parse tags/properties/timestamps. Of course it's an Emacs-based tool, but please note that org-ql has extensive,

Re: Anyone use 3rd party search tools w/org-mode?

2019-11-06 Thread John Kitchin
The way I got Swish to index org files was to create a script that generated an xml file (https://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/07/06/Indexing-headlines-in-org-files-with-swish-e-with-laser-sharp-results/) or html (http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/07/03/Using-swish-e-to-index-org

Re: Anyone use 3rd party search tools w/org-mode?

2019-11-06 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Roland Everaert writes: > Hello all, > > I am interested in a search/indexing engine targeting the org format, > too. > > My interest comes from the fact that I have a growing number of org > files and as org-mode has no file archiving feature, AFAIK, searching > needs more and more time to compl

Re: Anyone use 3rd party search tools w/org-mode?

2019-11-06 Thread Russell Adams
I use Recoll. It has a GUI, a CLI, and I use a script with dialog to popup results. I index all my org files, all my PDFs (vendor technical documentation), email, etc. Works great, refreshes daily. On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 05:02:07PM +0100, Roland Everaert wrote: > Hello all, > > I am interested

Re: Anyone use 3rd party search tools w/org-mode?

2019-11-06 Thread Roland Everaert
Hello all, I am interested in a search/indexing engine targeting the org format, too. My interest comes from the fact that I have a growing number of org files and as org-mode has no file archiving feature, AFAIK, searching needs more and more time to complete. Moving files, that are no more nec

Re: Anyone use 3rd party search tools w/org-mode?

2019-10-31 Thread Fraga, Eric
On Wednesday, 30 Oct 2019 at 23:17, Jean Louis wrote: > Me using `M-x grep' +1 I frequently do find ~ -name '*.org'| xargs grep -l to search all my org files for (and using variants of grep like egrep for full regex). Have never found the need for more than this (for my uses). YM

Re: Anyone use 3rd party search tools w/org-mode?

2019-10-30 Thread John Kitchin
I wrote https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/org-db.el to use sqlite for this. It does not do full text search, I found that too slow with my files and sqlite. you might see https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm-recoll. I have some blog posts with similar ideas: https://kitchingroup.cheme.

Re: Anyone use 3rd party search tools w/org-mode?

2019-10-30 Thread Jean Louis
* Nathan Neff [2019-10-30 23:08]: > Hello all, > > I'm considering indexing my org-mode files and haven't done any research > into > this. I'm sure there's 100 different ways to do this but wanted to ask the > list if anyone > is indexing their org-mode files and using a search tool like Solr, E

Anyone use 3rd party search tools w/org-mode?

2019-10-30 Thread Nathan Neff
Hello all, I'm considering "indexing" my org-mode files and haven't done any research into this. I'm sure there's 100 different ways to do this but wanted to ask the list if anyone is indexing their org-mode files and using a search tool like Solr, Elastic or smaller indexing engines to search th