Re: [Caml-list] ANN: cfind 0.0.0

[Jan Kybic <kybic@fel.cvut.cz>]

> Description: cfind is a UNIX tool that provides functionality similar
> to that of Google Desktop from the command line. It is written
> entirely in OCaml.
> 
> Homepage: http://cfind.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I'll appreciate any input from the OCaml community.

It looks definitely very useful. Proposed extensions and changes:

- configurable choise of a lexer. For example there could be a table
  (read from a configuration file) with regular expressions matching
  path and file names, association them to parsers.

- If I understand your code correctly, in TeX files only
  command names are indexed, is it correct? Then I might prefer a
  different lexer, which ignores comments and command names and
  indexes the words in the text.

- It should be also possible to apply other configurable filters to
  the files before indexing. An example would be to decompress 
  all "*.gz" or "*.bz2" files before indexing

- More complicate logical expressions defining match, in the spirit of:
  "functional" AND "lazy" AND NOT "Haskell"

- It would be nice to be able to break files into smaller units and to
  find the units which match, not the whole file. A typical example
  would be email in mbox format, or perhaps functions in a program.

Good luck,

Jan
  

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