Re: New module proposal: tracker

[Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de>]

On Tue, 18.08.09 16:11, Colin Walters (walters verbum org) wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Jamie
> McCracken<jamie mccrack googlemail com> wrote:
> >
> > we could use the Gtk Recent files stuff for this and that would work for
> > ordinary users but not devs fetching source code or other command line
> > stuff
> 
> Unless it's really REALLY compelling and fast, I don't want my source
> code in any kind of database, at least by default.  We should leave
> this to IDEs.

Hmm, I'd personally love if I had my own little google codesearch that
could quickly tell me where I already used a specific API call
and how I did it. My emacs doesn't offer me that unfortunately.

I believe indexing code is very very useful. And I am apparently not
the only one, given that there are things like google codesearch or
krugle and all the others.

> The important files to index are word processor documents, graphic
> files, PDFs, web browser downloads.  Recent files could be used for
> this with a bit of work (i know Firefox would need a patch at least).

I'd assume music files are among the most important ones?

Lennart

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