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[Martin Ruderer <martin AT lddd.org>]

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 14:06:10 +0200
Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls AT informaat.nl> wrote:

> I was using gaze search when needing to find something, but found it
> took too long (I know there is a new faster version), so I get the
> grimoire in html form, and search using the browser, and manually for
> things.  If I don't find an easy answer there, where I can go "gaze
> what" with the name, then gaze search it is.

You may be interested in that "bug"
http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3528

The proposed patch introduces 
gaze search -name and
gaze search -short,
with a very acceptable speed IMHO.

With these two switches, you shouldn't need to use your browser for
these kind of things anymore. ;-)


> I really find gaze search useful, but have found that it is too slow
> for casual queries, so use it as a last resort, that happily usually
> succeeds.

If you only care about the name, it could be faster in future.

> Hope this is the feed back you are looking for, 

It's at least the feedback I were looking for. ;-)

-- 
Martin