Full-text search function

[ossphil]

Hi blahgeek,
Do you have any plans for the support of full-text search function please? This is a killer feature for any launcher i think. To use recoll's index is a possible way.

Thanks

[blahgeek]

Hi @ossphil

Sorry I have no such features (built-in full-text search) planned in the near future. Minions is not designed to be a "file searcher", it's intended to be a "action launcher", a unified interface to all tools, where actions can be easily defined as plugins. (If you've been on macOS, it's much more like LaunchBar, not Spotlight, though they're constantly compared to each other)

However, it IS possible (and should be trivial) to add an Action named, say, "Search in Recoll", that uses recoll to do the actual work. It would look like "Search in Duckduckgo" in the demo video with realtime suggestions. Of course, that requires "recoll" to be installed and configured in the system already.

Please let me know if you have any other thoughts.