Re: Indexed search with grep-like output

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 01:14:30 +0100
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>>
>> However I got another problem with docsearch. I want to do things like this
>>
>>   docsearch ext:pdf ext:org -a first second .
>>
>> If I use both ext:pdf and ext:org they should be OR-ed but I get no
>> hits then. Do you have any idea what is wrong?
>
> Maybe it's a bug in docsearch.  But why do you care in which documents
> the information lives?  I never use the ext: query, precisely
> _because_ I don't care and don't want to remember in what format the
> info is stored and where.  Just let it search everything, the search
> is lightning fast anyway.

Thanks. I just found another way to do they same query with Lucene
syntax (which docindexer uses).

It is sometimes easier to find what you want if you do not search all files.