Beagle tiles..
Nat, Trow?
What if Beagle would display a snippet of the document content along with the searched term? It could show the first match with a small snippet of content before and after - this way it might be faster to find the one you are looking for. No need to open each one to see what’s inside..?
Google does this for searches and it is pretty useful.
September 23rd, 2004 at 18:32
And displaying the first words of a mail in your mailbox, like in Gmail, is very useful too!
September 23rd, 2004 at 18:37
Yeah, that too. Or if one searches mail in Beagle, it might be useful to display the context of the searched term rather than the beginning of the mail.. Hm. Or would it make sense to show both?
“Hi Strass! I was thinking … foo bar blah [b][color=#FFCC66]beagle[/color][/b] blah foo bar…”
or something..?
September 23rd, 2004 at 18:53
It would be great if it hyperlinked gedit or relevant application to the file aswell (if it doesn’t already) so when you click your matched search you are taken to that row in the file in a gedit window. I don’t know if gedit support command-line parameters on which line it should have centered on startup… but it would be cool
September 27th, 2004 at 01:53
I wanted to have something like this when I wrote the Tomboy indexer, though never got round to asking how easy it would be to get the context.
Thinking about it, as the Lucene backend doesn’t keep the full text of documents, each result would probably require a re-parse of the original document (slow and only available for local docs), or would require at least a full plain text copy of the document in the Lucene index (thus creating a massive index).
There has been some work on this in the original Lucene, but is not contained in the (abandoned?) Lucene.NET source.. hmm.
October 23rd, 2004 at 16:25
Sorry to drag up an old post, but I saw something very neat in my HCI lecture yesterday. The instructor was showing on his slides a type of search mechanism that showed little boxes next to the title of the thing that matched the search, and those boxes were different colors. They represented the “hotness” of where the search terms occured in the document. I thought this was a much neater way of representing search results rather than just a snippet. Too bad the lecture was about something entirely different…