[PD] xapian search engine for Pd

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Mon May 18 21:56:04 CEST 2009


Xapian would be for searching all of the included documentation so you  
can use keywords to find objects that you need, and things like that.

.hc

On May 18, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Phil Stone wrote:

> 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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