search & index

As a developer I have to recursively grep through /usr/src, /usr/ports and even /usr/local often enough to be concerned about how much time I spend waiting. I use simple queries as well as very complicated ones. Littles research has been done on indexing for fast regex searches (there's is a well-known paper though). All I have to resort to for now is conventional indexing.

Right now I'm looking at:

• gonzui
• clucene
• hyperestraier
• xapian

Interestingly enough, there are few tools that provide convenient CLI, most of them are GUI-oriented. The other sad thing is that most provide very fuzzy results, nothing close to grep. gonzui is cool, but it is quite limited. The search for the right searching tools continues.

Sadly, Google Code Search is next to unusable at this point of development.

To port: strigi http://main.linuxfocus.org/~guido/#whichman