Re: Search folders

[David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

On Jul 1, 2010, at 6:51 AM, Simon Brown wrote:

> At Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:14:38 +0100,
> Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>> What specifically would you like to be able to do?  Maybe we can help
>> with a specific example.
> Well, I understand that there are many indexing options: namazu,
> mairix, xaipan and mu at least. Comments on the relative benefits and
> how you keep the index up to date would be useful.

I've been pretty happy with mairix, even though using it server-side is slightly hacky.  The index gets a "quick update" hourly and a "full update" nightly, and `m u' does an immediate quick update.

> Then once the index has been created how do you actually search using
> it. "m a" every time?

I end up using `M-m m' a lot

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