Ian Zimmerman writes: > 3. xapian-omega. This seems to be the one modern apps are migrating to, > I heard of the Gnus mail/newsreader acquiring a xapian based search > function. But, out of the box it cannot index gzipped files (and most > documents in /usr/share/doc other that HTML pages are gzipped), and > there doesn't seem to be a way to add a user-defined filter either > to compensate for this (swish-e has user filters).
Automatically uncompressing gzipped files for indexing isn't hard to do, but what can you link to for them in the search results? Of the four web browsers I just tried, only w3m showed the contents of file:///usr/share/doc/coreutils/README.gz rather than downloading it for me. Same for http://localhost/doc/coreutils/README.gz it seems. Currently you have to modify the source to add new support for new file formats, but there is at least a detailed FAQ entry which leads you through how to do that: http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/FAQ/OmegaNewFileFormat This really should be possible via a configuration file, but nobody's got around to sorting that out yet. But as others have said, recoll is probably a better choice for a Xapian-based solution for a desktop situation anyway. Cheers, Olly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
