Re: search engines

James Thomas <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:20:50 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
James Thomas <[email protected]> writes:

> James Thomas writes:
>
>> Peter M=C3=BCnster writes:
>>
>>> I would like to know about your experiences with the search engines.
>>> I=E2=80=99ve used notmuch, but unfortunately the substring queries only=
 work for
>>> the beginning of a word.
>>
>> Have you read the 'Stemming' and 'Wildcard' here (with raw queries):
>>
>>   https://notmuchmail.org/manpages/notmuch-search-terms-7/
>
> Oh sorry; I realize you wanted it when leading.

I guess it must be possible to wrap a trivial search engine (without
indexing) around the 'grep' program, at least as a fallback, if it's
really needed.

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