perhaps of interest is seft [http://ww2.cs.mu.oz.au/~oldk/seft/]
which works well for me. It is unusual in that it allows all the usual
text searching tools (including AltaVista's long lamented () near operator,
but does not use indices, it does it the hard way.
Before you dismiss this as slow,
On Mon Mar 8 16:35:12 EST 2010, st...@quintile.net wrote:
perhaps of interest is seft [http://ww2.cs.mu.oz.au/~oldk/seft/]
which works well for me. It is unusual in that it allows all the usual
text searching tools (including AltaVista's long lamented () near operator,
but does not use
why would we go for slower than grep? wouldn't it be simpler
put a new queryish interface on grep á la 9fans.net/archive?
what am i missing?
It allows a subtly different set of query tools which make
sense to less regexp savvy people I work with, and it prints
results with contex which our
On Mon Mar 8 18:30:34 EST 2010, st...@quintile.net wrote:
why would we go for slower than grep? wouldn't it be simpler
put a new queryish interface on grep á la 9fans.net/archive?
what am i missing?
It allows a subtly different set of query tools which make
sense to less regexp savvy
i wiill give it a try
you might also want to check out my (ape) port of glimpse
/n/sources/contrib/pac/sys/src/ape/cmd/txt/glimpse-4.18.6.tbz
thanks,
++pac
