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Elisp: Search a File Without Visiting?
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taashlo |
Subject: |
Elisp: Search a File Without Visiting? |
Date: |
16 Jun 2003 12:33:28 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
I've looked throught the elisp manual without finding the answer to
my question. I've written some elisp so that when I hit a key
sequence (C-ct) a thesaurus lookup of the word at point (or the
phrase with the mark) is performed with the results of the search
displayed in a separate window (for further searching or dictionary
lookup).
This currently works, but it relies on loading the entire thesaurus
file into a buffer to search for the word. The problem is that the
thesaurus file (mthesaur.txt[1]) is about 24MiB.
My question: is it possible (using elisp) to search the contents of
the thesaurus file *without* loading it into a buffer?
Thanks,
Tad
[1] ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext02/mthes10.zip