On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:20:03 -0800 (PST), Terry Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Jeff Shannon wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:54:43 -0800 (PST), Terry Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > Interesting -- I prefer the CHM (Windows helpfile), because it's > > internally indexed. I feel that the internal search is more > > convenient than external searches would be. But I suppose that > > there's room for reasonable people to disagree, here. :) > > Sure, and I'd expect I'm in the minority. > > I use Agent Ransack for searching files on my system. I do a search for, > for example, a filename of html$ containing the word "socket" and can get > a pretty good look at what I'm looking for. > > I'll bet that the CHM file can do that at least as well, but since > I use Agent Ransack for all my document searches (Python-related or > otherwise), it's most convenient for me use one consistent mechanism. > > I'll tell you, if Google desktop had a way of limiting searches to > specific directories, I'd be in heaven. >
How do you live without cygwin? Just 'cd' to the directory and 'grep -r' to search through it. It's the first thing I install on a windows box, even before python. Peace Bill Mill bill.mill at gmail.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
