Hi, my snippets collection is getting kind of large, and my old method of letting Perl grep through all the files is getting slow and "hard drive intensive". So I have a preliminary design using swish++ and then dumping the files returned from swish into a Tk listbox, and then you can browse the file with the search word highlighted.

So I figure this has been done before, and was wondering if there are better ways. (Before I get too deep into it :-)

The only drawbacks I see is swish++ likes to ignore alot of short common words, which are Perl keywords...like for, if ,etc; and it is limited to single word searches.

So has anyone else found a method which can limit the search to 1 file, like swish++ ?

My first inclination was just to "cat" all the files together in a big text file, and just search it. But then what would be the best way to compress and search it, retaining the original filenames?

My intuition tells me I want to convert the text to some compressed binary reperesentation, to make the searching faster, and the file smaller.

So I would appreciate any ideas and pointers which anyone may have.(before I go sailing off in the wrong direction :-) ) TIA

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In reply to looking for ideas for managing snippets collection by zentara

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