Re: a request for WRI
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- Subject: [mg55145] Re: [mg55000] a request for WRI
- From: Chris Chiasson <chris.chiasson at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 03:43:45 -0500 (EST)
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- Reply-to: Chris Chiasson <chris.chiasson at gmail.com>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Wow, that was fast. When was this released? On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:06:01 -0600, Zhe Hu <iamhuzhe at gmail.com> wrote: > http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Demos/5596/ > > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 06:34:25 -0500 (EST), Chris Chiasson > <chris.chiasson at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > -- Chris Chiasson Kettering University Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student 1 810 265 3161
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- a request for WRI
- From: Chris Chiasson <chris.chiasson@gmail.com>
- a request for WRI