On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:11:00PM -0500, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Chris Palmer <ch...@noncombatant.org> wrote: > > We need a desktop text indexing system that sucks less. > > grep
...is not an example of an indexing system. While such a system would be useful, I'm doubtful that a ``suckless'' one could be made. It inherently involves lots of parsers for different file type metadata, which either introduces lots of code or lots of dependencies.