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8.6 Search Engine

To operate search engines, the following commands are provided:

km

Make index for the current folder.

kM

Make index for all folders.

kc

Switch one search engine to another.

The followings are expiation of each search engines.

Hyper Estraier

Type ‘kM’ periodically. It's OK to execute "mewest" on the command line instead. If you want to update the index for the current folder quickly, you can use ‘km’. Both ‘k?’ and ‘k/’ are available. When you specify folders with ‘C-uk/’, sub-folders, if any, are included in the target.

Spotlight

Type ‘kM’ just once. ‘km’ is not necessary. Both ‘k?’ and ‘k/’ are available.

Windows Desktop Search

Type ‘kM’ just once. ‘km’ is not necessary.

Google Desktop

Type ‘kM’ just once. ‘km’ is not necessary. Only ‘k/’ is available.

The default search engine is automatically set to the one found first. If you explicitly specify it, set ‘mew-search-method’ to one out of 'est, 'spotlight, 'wds, and 'google. The following is an example to choose Hyper Estraier.

 
(setq mew-search-method 'est)

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