Roland Everaert <reveatw...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello all, > > I am interested in a search/indexing engine targeting the org format, > too. > > My interest comes from the fact that I have a growing number of org > files and as org-mode has no file archiving feature, AFAIK, searching > needs more and more time to complete. > > Moving files, that are no more necessary, outside of my org-directories, > can be tedious and prone to moving the wrong file to the wrong location. > > Hence, an indexer could comes in handy, especially if it is optimised > for the Org format (i.e.: it knows what are categories, tags, > properties, etc in an Org file).
I think this last point is key. Most full-text search engines provide config options for defining fields, or "facets", which in theory we could set up to parse tags/properties/timestamps. My guess is that any of the major contenders (solr, xapian, lucene) would work pretty much as well as any of the others -- for our purposes, they probably only differ in the details. Xapian might be considered "in the family" from a license standpoint, but I don't know that that matters too much. It would be fun to provide an Org indexing config for one of these engines, and then build the Agenda on top of it.