Re: [PD] xapian search engine for Pd

2009-05-18 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
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

Re: [PD] xapian search engine for Pd

2009-05-18 Thread cyrille henry
if you need partial-string search, then stop thinking and install pd 0.42-5 ;-) Cyrille Phil Stone a écrit : 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

Re: [PD] xapian search engine for Pd

2009-05-18 Thread Phil Stone
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 i

[PD] xapian search engine for Pd

2009-05-15 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
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