[PD] Using Xapian for the Pd Search Plugin

Jonathan Wilkes jancsika at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 1 22:14:13 CET 2013


----- Original Message -----

> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Friday, February 1, 2013 2:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] Using Xapian for the Pd Search Plugin
> 
> On 01/25/2013 09:55 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>> 
>>>  From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>>>  To: pd-list at iem.at
>>>  Cc: 
>>>  Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 9:39 PM
>>>  Subject: Re: [PD] Using Xapian for the Pd Search Plugin

[...]

>>  I suppose we could also make use of the numbers in "#X obj 20 
> 10", as term with
>>  associated lower number coordinates are closer to the top left corner and 
> are more
>>  prominent.
> 
> That makes a lot of sense to me.  It would be great to include as much of the
> meta data as possible, like whether this term is an object name, object
> arguments, or maybe also whether its in a comment or message box.
> 
> This gives us the possibility to make the searching much more aware of Pd.

Should be easy to do.  I haven't actually tested out Xapian yet-- hopefully the
helpful documentation is a reflection of the quality of the actual software.

-Jonathan




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