a request for WRI
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- Subject: [mg55000] a request for WRI
- From: Chris Chiasson <chris.chiasson at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 06:34:25 -0500 (EST)
- Reply-to: Chris Chiasson <chris.chiasson at gmail.com>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Dear WRI, Google Desktop Search 1.0 was released recently. It has an API so that plugins for different file formats may be added. I would write a plugin to search Mathematica notebooks, but I really only know how to program in Mathematica... Mathematica notebooks have a bunch of special formatting, preventing their indexing as a normal "text" file (even though it is plain text readable). Could you guys/gals write a plugin for GDS that gives all symbols from input cells and all text from non-input cells over to the search engine? This would catch all function calls and all user defined variables. One good side benefit is that they might finally add .nb search to the main search engine later. I dunno. I just wanna be able to search my notebooks for old code! :-) Please help. Thank you, -- Chris Chiasson Kettering University Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student 1 810 265 3161
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