Hello,

I've read, not so long ago, about the fantastic `anything.el'
package, which opens pretty anything in a few keystrokes.

What's really great about it, is its integration with Locate and
Tracker (under Ubuntu). Unmissable, once tried...

How could I replicate such behaviors under Windows (that I have
to use for work -- can't avoid it yet) where neither one neither
the other exists by default?

Other question: can we impose an order for the presentation of
the different sources? It seems the order specified by my
`anything-sources' variable is not taken into account.

Best regards,
Seb

Sébastien Vauban spammotel.com> writes:

Hi Sébastien,

I'm not sure, but maybe you can install both with Cygwin [1].

I think it should use the order in anything-sources with the exception
of asynchronous sources. Of course both locate and tracker are
asynchronous sources, so currently you cannot control the order there.
But there's a TODO in anything.el:

,----[ ~/elisp/anything.el ]
| ;; - results from async sources should appear in the order they are
| ;; specified in anything-sources
`----

Hi Tassilo,

Yes, it is available from `System/procps'. Got it installed.
Works from the shell.

Changed the process to launch with the following:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq anything-c-locate-options '("top"))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

... but nothing happens. Like if it was not called at all -
while still part of my anything sources.

Seb

Sébastien Vauban spammotel.com> writes:

Hi Sébastien,

No, don't touch anything-c-locate-options. You should invoke `top' in a
terminal and then fire up anything and watch in top's output if a locate
process is started then.

And please check if locate accepts the options given in
anything-c-locate-options. (locate

Hi Tassilo,

Stupid from me! Sorry.

To answer your question, no, `M-x anything' does not fire up a
`locate' process (checked with `top -d 0.1' - *correctly*
working under cygwin). I don't understand why.

Sébastien Vauban spammotel.com> writes:

Hi Sébastien,

Strange. Could you please eval the following expression and report back
what happens?

(let ((buf "*locate*"))
(apply 'start-process "locate-process" buf
(append anything-c-locate-options
(list "pattern")))
(pop-to-buffer buf)) ;; <-- Press `C-x C-e' behind the last closing
;; parenthesis.

Bye,
Tassilo

Hi Tassilo,

Yes, it does create a new buffer, in which the following is to
be found:

Sébastien Vauban spammotel.com> writes:

Hi Sébastien,

[...]

Really strange. The code above is a copy of the command
anything-c-source-locate uses to get the candidates list. Did you
redefine it or use an home-brewn locate source in anything-sources?

Hi Tassilo,

Sébastien Vauban spammotel.com> writes:

Hi Sébastien,

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