more programming fun

[vlion]

One thing I regularly want is a search tool for *my* needs. The OSX one (spotlight) is a bit slow and often doesn't do what I want. I haven't found one I'm happy with for Linux.

So I sat down this evening and hacked together some Common Lisp/SQLite to start this. At present it's a bit mindless but I can query for particular phrases. I need to add in stemming rules.

It's a good hack project. Not too complicated, but interesting enough I don't feel that I'm wasting my time. It's also extremely well-defined IMO.

My goal is to provide a separate system that'll be like `locate`, but will be "search 'token'". Depending on the SQLite syntax is, I might be able to swing regexes or LIKE queries as well. Otherwise I'll just have to implement some peculiar stemming rules in order to handle tokens of interest.

TODO:

- Add in directory walking and insertnig

- Factor search code out into the client tool.

Comments

[tamouse]

I am not enamoured of any of the desktop solutions for search either. But I've found that I very very rarely seach for content, but instead file names. Thus, mlocate actually fills my needs exceptionally well.

That said, I'd love to see your hacky hack funtiems coding project :)

[vlion]

I'll definitely put it online somewhere as AGPL3 code.

[vlion]

Hey, this is a followup.

So I am thinking about this ( in relation to systemic data management), and what would you want to see?