[PD] xapian search engine for Pd

[Phil Stone]

Hi Hans,

I'm a little unclear, would this replace the "find" function on the 
"find" menu?  If so, that would be wonderful; the current "find" has a 
serious drawback in that it can't find partial object names, neither can 
it find names containing "$0"; these two attributes combine to make it 
impossible to track down objects named similarly to '$0-foo'.  I 
understand the issue with $0, being that it is replaced with a generated 
number, but partial-string search would be a fantastic improvement.


Phil



Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> I've been thinking for a while that Pd really needs a good built-in 
> search function.  I just found this Xapian search library that has 
> good Tcl bindings, anyone ever used it?
>
> I suppose it could also be implemented in C in 'pd' rather than in Tcl 
> in 'pd-gui'.  It seems like a pd-gui thing tho.
>
> .hc
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