Re: [Fsfe-uk] A replay of Netscape vs. IE? -- but with a privacy risk

[Simon Waters]

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Robin Green wrote:
| On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:40:39AM +0100, Simon Waters wrote:
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|>Hmm Mozilla doesn't seem to search encrypted text even when it has
|>the relevant pass phrase in Enigmail, is this an Enigmail
|>enhancement request I wonder? And Swish and friends work with Word
|>documents, but no one seems to mention OpenOffice....
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| OOo Writer docs are just compressed xml, literally, so that should be
| really easy to implement. Could be as simple as associating .sxw with
| the zip file format.

Good point.... I don't think it is hard to do, I can see "strings"
ending up as the default handler the way "less" does for some other
general purpose tools.

Oh and it occured to me that if my mail is encrypted and in IMAP,
the IMAP server side functions won't work unless I give the IMAP my
secret key (unlikely in the general case), or choose to pass it a
copy of the decrypted email (more plausible).

But aside from such technical inconveniences, I see no simple to
install util like KDict, that lets me do an indexed search of the
files I can read and present the answer nicely.

I know we can all do "grep -R ...." and I might even get it right
sometimes, but whilst my nice new shiny hardware does an excellent
job, this is still much slower than an indexed search, even if it
may be more flexible and comprehensive.

What does the Konqueror "file indexes" option do?
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