Re: Other (plain text) file types can be indexd by Beagle?

[Daniel Drake <dsd gentoo org>]

Robin Haswell wrote:
> Wouldn't I need to know how to do it first? :-)
>
> Seriously, I might do if you could point me at some good examples. I 
> don't know any languages inside out apart from PHP and its interweb 
> buddies, but I'm sure I could pick up Python or some other newbie 
> language pretty quickly

You need to write filters in C#. C# is much like Java. It's not hard to pick 
up if you are familiar with other languages anyway.

As for examples, take a look at beagle's current range of filters. 
Filters/FilterText.cs is a good place to start, a very simple filter which 
just indexes each line of text in a file.
FilterMan.cs is a level up, which is mostly text but beagle has to process 
(ignore) some formatting too. I'll leave it to you to explore the other 
filters that are there :)

If you were to write a draft for this I would be happy to clarify any points 
and answer any questions you might have.

Daniel