Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4626 mails)

[Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 15:50, Randall R Schulz wrote:
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>
> Look at a PDF file once, there's so much extraneous formatting
> information interleaved with the text that only rarely would grep or
> other textual search find what you're looking for. The same goes for
> PostScript, Word and almost any word-processing or document
> distribution format.
>
> There are alternatives to Beagle, but I'm not sure they're any
> more "ready for prime-time" than Beagle is.

Yeah, I agree. 

Plus locate is - gulp - command line and you need a college degree to 
understand the regex operations in grep.

I personally euthanized the darn dog on all my machines and use a logical 
folder structure to find things.  

My machines work way faster.
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wo ist der ort für den ehrlichsten kuss
ich weiss, dass ich ihn für uns finden muss...
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