Re: Indexed search with grep-like output

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 00:03:46 +0100
>> Cc: address@hidden
>>
>> Does id-util.el allow you to restrict your query to a directory tree?
>
> Yes: you need to index each such tree separately.  `lid', the command
> that queries the data base, accepts a file name of an index as its
> command-line argument (and its Emacs front-end accepts that as well).

Thanks.

I do not know about other search engines, but at least Windows Desktop
Search allows you to restrict the search later. (This is used in
idxsearch.el.)