[Ti] Word Search

[Massimo Marino]

Yes Mike,

it certainly is not exactly the same as in OS <singledigit> era as a 
more flexible (Command-F) exist but you have as well the indexing from
Command-I (Content Index) where it tells you whether a volume/folder is 
indexed, when, and delete/recreate the index.

In terms of integration since OS X is now Unix nonetheless indeed I 
would not be surprised if the Command-F GUI simply is an interface to 
grep expressions (which does not need pre-indexing). So in this sense 
it is integrated in the system in that it is part of Unix features to 
be able to search the guts of every kind of existing file for 
expressions and patterns.

I think (but never benchmarked that) that indexing allows nonetheless 
for faster searches and it is used with the (from Jaguar on) text-field 
available directly on Finder windows. (Command-F) might be using Unix 
features alone though.

Cheers

On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 01:50 AM, PowerBook G4 Titanium List 
wrote:

> Message-Id: <a05111a06ba7b18bdb6e7@[10.226.200.82]>
> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:47:51 -0500
> From: Michael Bigley <wakinyan at fuse.net>
> Subject: Re: [Ti] Word Search
>
>> It is called "Indexing" and of course is not limited to a Word
>> document but to every little piece of crap you might end to have in
>> every little file in your system. Mac had it well before OS X. You
>> have it on OS X as well though.
>
> Actually, prior to OSX you had to designate a volume to be indexed,
> schedule a time, usually at a time when you were not working on the
> computer, and the index file could become quite large.
>
> As I said in a previous post, I created a word document with a unique
> word in it, saved the file, then immediately searched for that word
> and the file was found.  So it may be indexing, but it is integrated
> into the OS in a very different way than previous versions of the OS.
> Perhaps is is a GUI version of grep, I am not that technically
> knowledgeable, but it is certainly different than the indexing of
> OS9.x
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