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On 10/4/06, Chris Devers <cdevers@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Joe Mahoney wrote: > It got a surprising amount of mileage out of that idea, including, among > other things, easy ways to search for things by arbitrary criteria, > because it new, for example, that an email file had attributes like > sender, date, and subject, while a song file had attributes like artist, > album, and genre. And, of course, you could organize or search by any of > these attributes, all right in the file browser. > > Granted, modern OSes completely fail to be able to do this. Oh well. Not true actually. XP does this, as does I think Win2003. Of course in XP MS managed to screw the whole thing up (which is not to say that they didnt scew up 2003, just that I havent checked) so that its worse than useless, but.... On XP all searches done by the built in search tool use "search handlers" to inspect a file. So if you have emails in a particular format, and a handler is installed to search that format then XP can do more intelligent searches. *Supposedly* The problem is that if a given filetype doesn't have a search handler then the stupid search mechansim doesnt default to a text search, it defaults to skipping the file. And since there is hardly a plethora of search handler implementation out there the end result is that the fucking XP search function is totally fucking broken. If you have XP and you a directory full of c code do a search for files ending with .c/.h containing some string you know is there. Then laugh your ass off when you realize that the fucking search program doesnt find them. Then download something like agent-ransack (http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/) and be happy that there is a replacement (and one that works pretty nicely.) Only Microsoft could fuck up a file search function this badly. Hate. Yves ps: Of course it will search your Excel files and your Word documents, and probably even your powerpoint presentations, but a plain old fucking text c header file? Fuckers. -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"There's stuff above here
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