Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:51:46 -0700 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> Cc: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beta FreeBSD search engine Message-ID: <20020711175145.GA638@HAL9000.wox.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0207110740450.18876-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> References: <3D2D8386.5533CAE3@centtech.com> <Pine.LNX.4.43.0207110740450.18876-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
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Thus spake Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>: > > Why would you want /usr/src/* indexed? What would you be looking for? > > This reminds me of Rich Morin's Meta Project. It indexes man pages, > source, and other "metadata" that can be browsed, searched with keywords, > regular expression searches(?). But the demo seems broken at this > moment. > > http://www.cfcl.com/Meta/mdinfo.html I think a special-purpose search engine would be better suited for indexing source code. There are different considerations for how queries ought to be matched, and other important differences between C and English. For example, if I entered `mmap', the most relevant result ought to be the implementation of mmap(), not the dozens of uses of it. And of course, cross-referencing would be a boon. Then again, just about anything is better than the way I presently search /usr/src, namely recursive grep. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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