Re: Emacs interface to Recoll other than Helm?

[Angel de Vicente]

Hi,

Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> writes:
>> but right now I'm using Ivy
>> (http://oremacs.com/swiper/) and if possible I would like to avoid
>> installing Helm just for the integration with Recoll (plus, I'm not sure
>> if it will clash somehow with the installed Ivy?).
>>
>
> You will find Ivy-backend based plugins in the counsel library. About your
> question specific to Ivy+Recoll, it's already out there by the Ivy author
> himself: https://oremacs.com/2015/07/27/counsel-recoll/

thanks for the pointer. Actually I had tried to used the code in that
page but it was giving me "Error 127", but then I realized I already
have that version defined in counsel.el in my distribution of
ivy/swiper. Now I manage to get it working, but I don't like the result
too much since I get a dynamic list of files that match my query, but
without any context, and then I have to open one by one and do a search
inside the file. It looks like:
http://picpaste.com/counsel-recoll-wDwS45L8.png

What I would like is something more like what you get in the Recoll GUI
(or, for example, when you do a multi-occur search), where you get a
buffer with the files matching, together with some context and an easy
way to open a particular file at the point where the match was
found. Something like:
http://picpaste.com/counsel-recoll-mo-uQUXHGey.png

Any ideas?

Many thanks,
-- 
Ángel de Vicente
http://angel-de-vicente.blogspot.com/