Alexander Larsoon (Nautilus maintainer) has a new Nautilus search implementation with optional Beagle integration via plugins. It is now possible to save the searches as smart folders.
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What I said was that "grep" was a cheap and inferior "alternative" to real indexed searching
Try to be less trollish with your comment. "grep" is surely not cheap, and not inferior to real indexed searching. You are comparing apples and oranges. grep is not an indexed searching tool.
Stop using stupid words like "cheap" about a program that can do far more powerful things than indexed searching.
That's actually indexed searching that is an alternative to grep, given that you can do what indexed searching does using grep with other tools (find, locate, ...).
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What's so special about names anyway? I'm can much easily remember how things looks and how the context looks so I can find it later. Names, I'm not so good with.
It usually takes me a year or two to learn the neames of all my class mates/colleagues, but only about a day or two to learn to find my way around the school/work place.
So I think a way to quickly navigate a stable space would be more welcome than a search for names...
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Are u implying that noone ever recalls a file name without knowing where the file is located?
I Guess Apple has relative backwardsness as well then. And windows is relatively going backwards with the combo of winfs and search tools.
I dont like to pin u for trolling but this time i dunno. File indexing/search IS indeed very useful, and most of the big OSes are realizing that.