On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:11:00PM -0500, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Chris Palmer <ch...@noncombatant.org> wrote:
> > We need a desktop text indexing system that sucks less.
> 
> grep

...is not an example of an indexing system. While such a system would be
useful, I'm doubtful that a ``suckless'' one could be made. It
inherently involves lots of parsers for different file type metadata,
which either introduces lots of code or lots of dependencies.

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