Hister - Your Own Search Engine

Comments

• activistPnk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I currently use the find-grep function in emacs, which is basically: find . -type f -exec grep ‘my.*search.*pattern’ {} +

  To do PDFs, I use something like find . -type f -iname \*pdf -exec pdfgrep ‘my.*search.*pattern’ {} +

  My problem is generally when TOKEN1<space>TOKEN2 has a line break between tokens. It’s fucking annoying that grep is line-by-line. I wonder if Hister solves that problem. But from the website, I see no advanced syntax. I would love to search a pattern like word1 w/s word2, which would find cases where word1 and word2 appear in the same sentence. And word1 w/p word2 to match cases where two words are in the same paragraph.

  original

  • cravl@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Replacing line breaks with nulls first is an option. That’s a lot of extra processing for very large blocks of text though.

    Using regular grep is possible with the right flags, or you could also use pcre2grep with the -M flag, which should be available on every distro nowadays. See this Stack Overflow article for details.

    original

    • activistPnk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      pcregrep is not automatically installed with Debian but it’s in the official repos. It seems common to get:

      pcregrep: Too many errors - abandoned.
      pcregrep: Error -8, -21 or -27 means that a resource limit was exceeded.
      pcregrep: Check your regex for nested unlimited loops.
      

      But it will help in many cases. I can see that it works on sufficiently small files. I noticed the built-in grep function for emacs can be modified to use pcregrep w/-M added instead of grep, which I find quite important because emacs makes it very easy to jump around to visit different results. In the end it’s still a hack.

      original
• eutampieri@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What’s the difference between this and SearXNG?

  original

  • uuj8za@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Huh, just from browsing the homepage, this seems to be more for searching local files.

    original

    • xnx@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s not. It makes local versions of websites you visit so you can search them

      original
    • eutampieri@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Hmm, thanks. I did browse the page but I didn’t understand well that aspect

      original
• Sibbo@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So did anybody try this and wake to share their experiences?

  • Does it use lots of CPU, RAM or disk?
  • Are the search results actually good?
  • Does it use a browser extension or so to get new visited sites, or do I have to import my history every day?
  • Does it also have a crawler?

  Also, why would I use this over e.g. YaCy?

  original