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[[!template text="""...starting the recording here in the chat, and I see some""" start="00:00:00.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""questions already coming in. So thank you so much for your""" start="00:00:03.560" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""talk, Zac, and I'll step out of your way and let you field""" start="00:00:06.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""some of these questions.""" start="00:00:09.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Sounds good. All right, so let's see. I'm going off of the""" start="00:00:10.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""question list.""" start="00:00:22.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""So the first one is about having reduced""" start="00:00:22.970" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""version of the functionality integrated into iSearch. So""" start="00:00:25.840" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""yeah, with the way things are set up, it is essentially a""" start="00:00:32.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""framework. So""" start="00:00:37.920" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""you can create a candidate. So just a review from the talk. So""" start="00:00:42.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""you have these candidate generators which generate search""" start="00:00:46.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""candidates. So you can have a file system candidate which""" start="00:00:49.920" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""generates these file documents, which have text content in""" start="00:00:54.560" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""them. In theory, you could have like a website candidate""" start="00:00:58.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""generator, and it could be like a web crawler. I mean, so""" start="00:01:01.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""there's a lot of different options. So one option, it's on my""" start="00:01:06.400" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""mind, and I hope to get to this soon, is create a defun, like a""" start="00:01:10.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""defun candidate generator. So basically it takes a file,""" start="00:01:15.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""splits it up into like defunds, kind of like just like what""" start="00:01:18.600" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""iSearch would do. and then use each of those, the body of""" start="00:01:22.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""those, as a content for the search session. So, I mean,""" start="00:01:26.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""essentially you could just, you could start up a session,""" start="00:01:30.960" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""and there's like programmatic ways to start these up too. So""" start="00:01:35.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""you could, if such a candidate generator was created, you""" start="00:01:39.480" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""could easily, and just like, you know, one command. Get the""" start="00:01:42.600" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""defunds, create a search session with it, and then just go""" start="00:01:49.560" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""straight to your query. So, definitely, something""" start="00:01:54.600" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""just like this is in the works. And I guess another thing is""" start="00:02:01.440" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""interface.""" start="00:02:06.920" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""The whole dedicated buffer is helpful for searching, but""" start="00:02:08.240" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""with this isearch case, there's currently not a way to have a""" start="00:02:17.080" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""reduced UI, where it's just like, OK, I have these function""" start="00:02:21.920" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""defuns for the current file. I just want them to pop up at the""" start="00:02:27.840" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""bottom so I can quickly go through it. So currently, I don't""" start="00:02:32.240" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""have that. But such a UI is definitely, yeah, thinking about""" start="00:02:35.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""how that could be done.""" start="00:02:41.200" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Alright, so yeah. So next question. Any idea how this""" start="00:02:45.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""will work with personal information like Zettelkasten?""" start="00:02:50.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""So this is, this is like, I mean, it's essentially usable as""" start="00:02:52.600" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""is with Zettelkasten method. So, I mean, that I mean""" start="00:02:58.320" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""basically what like for example org-roam, and I think other""" start="00:03:04.560" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""ones like Denote, they put all these files in the""" start="00:03:08.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""directory, and so with the already existing file system""" start="00:03:12.160" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""candidate generator all you'd have to do is set that to be the""" start="00:03:15.920" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""directory of your Zettelkasten system and then it would""" start="00:03:19.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""just pick up all the files in there and""" start="00:03:23.200" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""then add those as search candidates. So you could easily""" start="00:03:26.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""just search whatever system you have.""" start="00:03:28.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Based off of the ways it's set up, if you had maybe your""" start="00:03:33.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""dailies you didn't want to search, it's just as easy to add a""" start="00:03:36.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""criteria saying, I don't want dailies to be searched. Like""" start="00:03:41.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""give, like just eliminate the date, like the things from the""" start="00:03:44.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""daily from the sub directory. And then there you go. you have""" start="00:03:47.600" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""your Zettelkasten search engine, and you could just copy""" start="00:03:51.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""the, you know, there's, I mean, I need, I'm working on""" start="00:03:57.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""documentation for this to kind of set this up easily, but,""" start="00:04:00.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""you know, you could just create your simple command, just""" start="00:04:03.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""like, your simple command, just like, just take in a text""" start="00:04:06.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""query, run it through the system, and then just get your""" start="00:04:10.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""search results right there. So yeah, definitely that is a""" start="00:04:14.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""use case that's on top of my mind.""" start="00:04:19.600" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""So next one, how good does a""" start="00:04:22.041" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""search work for synonyms, especially if you use different""" start="00:04:23.240" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""languages? Okay, this is a good question because with the""" start="00:04:26.440" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""way that VM25 works, it's essentially just like trying to""" start="00:04:30.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""find where terms occur and just counts them up.""" start="00:04:34.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I mean, this is something I couldn't get into. There's just""" start="00:04:41.120" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""too much on the topic of information retrieval to kind of go""" start="00:04:44.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""into this, but there is a whole kind of field of just like, how""" start="00:04:46.920" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""do you, given a search term, how do you know what you should""" start="00:04:52.880" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""search for? So like popular kind of industrial search""" start="00:04:58.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""engines, like they have kind of this feature where you can""" start="00:05:02.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""like define synonyms, define, term replacement. So""" start="00:05:07.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""whenever you see this term, it should be this. And it even""" start="00:05:11.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""gets even further.""" start="00:05:14.080" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""If someone searches for a plural string,""" start="00:05:15.092" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""how do you get the singular from that and search for that? So""" start="00:05:19.440" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""this is a huge topic that currently p-search doesn't""" start="00:05:22.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""address, but it's on the top of my mind as to how. So that's one""" start="00:05:27.560" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""part.""" start="00:05:33.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""The next part is for different languages, one thing""" start="00:05:33.883" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that kind of seems like it's promising is vector search,""" start="00:05:39.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""which, I mean, with the way p-search is set up, you could""" start="00:05:42.840" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""easily just create a vector search prior, plug it into the""" start="00:05:47.400" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""system, and start using it. The only problem is that kind of""" start="00:05:51.160" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""the vector search functions, like you have to do like cosine""" start="00:05:54.600" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""similarity, like if you have like 10,000 documents, If""" start="00:05:58.880" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""you're writing Elisp to calculate the cosine similarity""" start="00:06:03.640" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""between the vectors, that's going to be very slow. And so now""" start="00:06:06.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""the whole can of worms of indexing comes up. And how do you do""" start="00:06:09.880" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that? And is that going to be native elisp? And so that's a""" start="00:06:14.160" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""whole other can of worms. So yeah, vector search seems""" start="00:06:17.480" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""promising. And then hopefully maybe other traditional""" start="00:06:21.840" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""synonyms, stemming, that kind of stuff for alternate""" start="00:06:25.960" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""terms, that could also be incorporated.""" start="00:06:33.440" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Okay, next one. When searching by author, I know authors may""" start="00:06:40.200" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""set up a new machine and not put the exact same information.""" start="00:06:43.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Is this doing anything to combine these two in one author?""" start="00:06:47.120" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Okay, so for this one, it's not. So it's like the way the get""" start="00:06:49.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""prior is currently set up is that it just does like a get""" start="00:06:54.400" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""command to get all the get authors. You select one and then it""" start="00:06:58.120" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""just uses that. But the thing is, is if you knew the two emails""" start="00:07:02.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that user might have used, the two usernames, you could just""" start="00:07:07.960" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""set up the""" start="00:07:12.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""two priors. One for the old user's email, and then just add""" start="00:07:14.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""another prior for the new user's email. And then that would""" start="00:07:19.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""be a way to just get both of those set up. So that's kind of a""" start="00:07:24.080" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""running theme throughout p-search is that It's made to be""" start="00:07:29.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""very flexible and very kind of like Lego block ish kind of""" start="00:07:32.960" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""like you can just, you know, if you need, you know, if""" start="00:07:36.240" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""something doesn't meet your needs, you know, it's easy to""" start="00:07:39.960" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""put pieces in, create new components of the search""" start="00:07:41.920" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""engine. Let's see, a cool powerful grep "Rak" to maybe have""" start="00:07:45.960" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""some good ideas. I have searches record code while""" start="00:07:51.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""searching. Okay. So. Okay, that's interesting. I'll have""" start="00:07:58.840" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""to look into this""" start="00:08:04.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""tool. I haven't seen that. I do kind of keep my eyes out for""" start="00:08:05.240" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""these kind of things. One thing I have seen that was kind of""" start="00:08:15.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that, I mean, looked interesting was kind of like AST, like""" start="00:08:18.200" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""the treesitter, the treesitter grep tools. But like, you""" start="00:08:24.440" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""can grep for a string in the language itself. So that's""" start="00:08:29.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""something I think would be cool to implement either,""" start="00:08:35.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""because I mean, there's treesitter in Emacs, so it's""" start="00:08:37.960" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""possible to do a new list. If not, there are those kind of like""" start="00:08:41.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""treesitter. So that's, that's something that I think would""" start="00:08:44.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""be cool to incorporate.""" start="00:08:47.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Let's see. Have you thought about integrating results from""" start="00:08:50.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""using cosine similarity with a deep learning based vector""" start="00:08:58.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""embedding? Yeah, exactly. So yeah, this kind of goes back to""" start="00:09:01.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""the topic before it. Definitely the whole semantic search""" start="00:09:06.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""with vector embeddings, that's something that, I mean, it""" start="00:09:09.760" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""would be actually kind of trivial to implement that in""" start="00:09:12.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""p-search. But like I said, computing the cosine similarity""" start="00:09:15.480" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""in elisp, it's probably too slow.""" start="00:09:20.240" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""And then also there's a whole question of how do you get the embeddings?""" start="00:09:25.960" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Like, how do you get the system running locally on your""" start="00:09:34.880" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""machine if you want to run it that or, I mean, so that's""" start="00:09:36.920" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""actually another kind of aspect that I need to look into.""" start="00:09:41.240" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Okay, so let's see.""" start="00:09:48.880" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Okay, next question. Let's see. I'm sorry if this has been""" start="00:10:01.940" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""covered. Is it possible to save/bookmark searches or search""" start="00:10:06.320" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""templates so they can be used again and again? Exactly. So""" start="00:10:09.080" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""just recently I added bookmarking capabilities. So""" start="00:10:14.560" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""you can essentially just bookmark whatever search session you""" start="00:10:18.200" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""have. And yeah, and it's just, it was just a bookmark. You can""" start="00:10:21.120" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""just open and just like reopen that, rerun that search from""" start="00:10:26.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""where you left off. So there's that. And then also, I tried to""" start="00:10:29.840" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""set this up so that there is a one-to-one mapping of a Lisp""" start="00:10:36.120" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""object to the search session. So from every search session""" start="00:10:40.560" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""you make, you should be able to get a, there's a command to do""" start="00:10:44.760" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""this, to get a data representation of the search. So it would""" start="00:10:49.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""just be like some plist. All you have to do is just take that""" start="00:10:55.200" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""plist, call this function p-search-setup-buffer with that""" start="00:11:00.080" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""data. And then that function should set up the session as you""" start="00:11:04.480" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""left off. So then like, you know, you could make your""" start="00:11:09.120" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""commands easy. You can make custom search commands super""" start="00:11:12.600" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""easy. You just get the data representation of that search,""" start="00:11:15.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""find what pieces you want the user to be able to, you know, the""" start="00:11:18.920" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""search term, make that a parameter in the""" start="00:11:22.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""command, in the interactive code. So you'd have like""" start="00:11:26.334" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""print on top and then there you go. You have,""" start="00:11:29.080" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""you have a command to do the search""" start="00:11:31.907" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""just like just right there. So, so""" start="00:11:34.328" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""there's a lot of those things and there's a lot more that""" start="00:11:35.760" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""could be done. Like maybe having, you know, there's kind of""" start="00:11:38.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""in the works and like thinking about having groups of groups""" start="00:11:41.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""of these things, like maybe you can set up like, Oh, I always""" start="00:11:45.480" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""add these three criteria together. So I, you know, maybe I""" start="00:11:48.960" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""can make a preset out of these and make them easy, easily""" start="00:11:51.920" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""addable. So yeah. A lot of things like that are, you know, I'm""" start="00:11:54.560" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""thinking about a lot of things about that, so.""" start="00:11:58.080" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Okay, so next question. You mentioned about candidate""" start="00:12:02.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""generators. Could you explain about what the score is""" start="00:12:06.080" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""assigned to? Is this to a line or whatever the candidate""" start="00:12:08.480" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""generates? How does it work with our junior demo? Okay,""" start="00:12:12.200" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""yeah, so this is a, this is, so actually I had to implement, I""" start="00:12:17.080" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""had to rewrite p-search just to get this part right. So the""" start="00:12:21.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""candidate generator generates documents. Documents have""" start="00:12:26.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""properties. 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So, if you ask me, the file system candidate""" start="00:14:12.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""generator, how to get the terms, it knows it's set up to use""" start="00:14:17.240" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""ripgrep. And so, it runs ripgrep, and so then it goes""" start="00:14:21.240" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""through, it runs the command, gets the counts, and then""" start="00:14:25.200" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""store those counts. So, the lines have nothing. At this""" start="00:14:29.440" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""point, the lines have nothing. There's no notion of lines at""" start="00:14:32.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""all. It's just document, document ID with the amount of""" start="00:14:36.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""times it matched. And that's all you need to run this BM25""" start="00:14:40.560" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""algorithm. But then when you get the top results, you""" start="00:14:43.840" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""obviously want to see the lines that matched. And so there's""" start="00:14:47.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""another thing, another method to kind of get the exact""" start="00:14:51.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""thing, to kind of match out the particular lines. And so""" start="00:14:56.400" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that's a separate mechanism. And that can be done in Elist,""" start="00:15:00.560" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""because if you're not displaying, that's kind of a design""" start="00:15:03.160" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""decision of P-Search, is that it only displays like maybe 10""" start="00:15:05.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""or 20. It doesn't display all the results. So you can have""" start="00:15:09.320" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Elist just go crazy with just like highlighting things,""" start="00:15:12.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""picking the best kind of pieces to show. So yeah, that's how""" start="00:15:16.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that's set up.""" start="00:15:22.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""So, here's perhaps a good moment for me to just jump in and""" start="00:15:27.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""comment that in a minute or so we will break away with the live""" start="00:15:38.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""stream to give people an hour of less content to make sure""" start="00:15:42.080" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""everybody goes and takes their lunch and break a little bit.""" start="00:15:47.440" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""But if you would like to keep going in here, Love to love to""" start="00:15:50.640" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""take as many questions. And, of course, we will include""" start="00:15:55.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that all when we publish the Q and A. Sounds good. Yeah, I'll go""" start="00:15:59.840" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""and stick around on the stream as we cut away, as we've got a""" start="00:16:06.160" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""little video surprise we've all prepared to play, just some""" start="00:16:12.200" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""comments from an Emacs user dated in 2020 or something like""" start="00:16:16.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""this. I forget the detail. Thank you again so much, Zac, for""" start="00:16:19.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""your fascinating talk.""" start="00:16:29.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Yeah, so, okay.""" start="00:16:30.960" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""This makes me really think about the""" start="00:16:32.302" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""emergent workflows with Denote and easy filtering with""" start="00:16:33.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""orderless.""" start="00:16:36.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Did this or something like this help influence the design of""" start="00:16:36.640" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""p-search? Yeah, exactly. So, I mean, yeah, I mean, there's""" start="00:16:42.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""just so many different searches. Like, it's just kind of""" start="00:16:47.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""mind-boggling. Like, you could search for whatever you want""" start="00:16:49.920" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""on your computer. Like, there's just so much, like, you""" start="00:16:52.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""can't, yeah, you can't just like, you can't just like hard""" start="00:16:54.600" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""code any of these things. It's all malleable. Like maybe""" start="00:17:01.200" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""somebody wants to search these directories. And so, yeah,""" start="00:17:04.160" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""like""" start="00:17:09.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""exactly like that use case of having a directory of files""" start="00:17:10.640" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""where""" start="00:17:18.400" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""they contain your personal knowledge management system.""" start="00:17:18.960" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Yeah, that use case definitely was at the top of my mind.""" start="00:17:25.920" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Let's see.""" start="00:17:33.480" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Let's see, so Git covers the multiple names thing itself.""" start="00:17:35.880" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Okay, yeah,""" start="00:17:56.960" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""so something about notmuch with p-search UI. Actually,""" start="00:18:00.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""interestingly, I think notmuch is, I haven't used it""" start="00:18:09.600" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""myself, but that's the, email something about yeah so i mean""" start="00:18:16.400" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""this is like these things are just like these these kind of""" start="00:18:22.760" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""extensions could kind of go go forever but one thing i""" start="00:18:25.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""thought about is like i use mu4e for email""" start="00:18:30.480" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""and that uses a full-fledged index. And so having""" start="00:18:33.370" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""some method to kind of reach into these different systems""" start="00:18:41.120" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""and kind of be kind of like a front end for this.""" start="00:18:44.880" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Another thing is maybe SQL database.""" start="00:18:47.939" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""You can create a candidate generator from a SQLite query""" start="00:18:52.001" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""and then... yeah...""" start="00:18:55.824" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I've had tons of ideas of different things you could""" start="00:19:02.583" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""incorporate into the system. Slowly,""" start="00:19:05.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""they're being implemented. Just recently, I implemented""" start="00:19:09.560" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""an info file candidate generator. So it lists out all the""" start="00:19:13.600" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""info files, and then it creates a candidate for each of the""" start="00:19:17.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""info nodes. So it turns out, yeah, I mean, it works pretty, I""" start="00:19:21.560" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""mean, just as well as Google. So I'm up for my own testing.""" start="00:19:26.760" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Let's see, you can search a buffer using ripgrep feeding in""" start="00:19:32.560" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""as standard in to the ripgrep process, can't you? Yep, yeah,""" start="00:19:40.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""you can definitely search a buffer that way. So, yeah, I""" start="00:19:44.760" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""mean, based off of I mean, if this, yeah, so one thing that""" start="00:19:50.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""came up is that the system wants, I mean, I wanted the system""" start="00:19:56.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""to be able to search a lot of different things. And so it came""" start="00:19:59.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""up that I had, you know, implementing,""" start="00:20:03.560" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""doing these search things, having an Elist""" start="00:20:06.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""implementation, despite it being slow, would be""" start="00:20:10.160" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""necessary. So like anything that isn't represented as a""" start="00:20:13.080" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""file, Elisp, there's a mechanism in p-search to search for""" start="00:20:17.400" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""it.""" start="00:20:21.640" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""So, yeah, so having that redundancy kind of lets you get into""" start="00:20:23.320" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""the, you know, using kind of ripgrep for the big scale""" start="00:20:29.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""things. But then when you get to the individual file, you""" start="00:20:32.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""know, just going back to Elisp to kind of get the finer""" start="00:20:37.760" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""details seems to, you know, seems to end up working pretty""" start="00:20:41.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""well.""" start="00:20:47.200" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Thank you all for listening. Yeah, sounds like we're about""" start="00:21:04.240" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""out of questions. Hi, Zacc. I have a question or still a""" start="00:21:27.400" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""question. I just want to thank everybody one more time for""" start="00:21:31.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""their participation, especially you for speaking, Zack. I""" start="00:21:34.120" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""look forward to playing with p-search myself. Thank you.""" start="00:21:37.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Yeah, there might be one last question. Is there someone?""" start="00:21:41.240" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Yes, there is. I don't know if you can understand me, but""" start="00:21:44.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""thank you for making this lovely thing""" start="00:21:48.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I feel inspired to try it out and I'm thinking about how to""" start="00:21:50.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""integrate it because it sounds modular and nicely thought""" start="00:21:57.920" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""out. One small question. Have you thought about Project L""" start="00:22:04.200" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""integration? And then I have a little bigger question about""" start="00:22:09.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""the interface.""" start="00:22:13.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Yeah, project.el integration, it's used in a couple of ways.""" start="00:22:14.880" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""It's kind of used to kind of as like kind of like a default.""" start="00:22:20.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""This is the directory I want to search for the default""" start="00:22:25.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""p-search command. It does, yeah, it kind of goes off of""" start="00:22:31.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""project.el. If there is a project, it kind of says, okay, this,""" start="00:22:33.640" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I want to search this project. And so it kind of, it used that""" start="00:22:37.120" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""as a default. So there's that. Because I use the project-grep""" start="00:22:40.320" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""or git-grep search a lot and maybe this is a better solution to""" start="00:22:46.120" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""the search and the interface you have right now for the""" start="00:22:50.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""search results.""" start="00:22:55.320" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""How happy are you with it and have you""" start="00:22:56.477" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""thought about improving or have you ideas for""" start="00:22:58.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""improvements? Yeah, well actually what you see in the demo""" start="00:23:02.600" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""in the video isn't... There's actually, there is an""" start="00:23:06.640" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""improvement in the current code. Basically, what it""" start="00:23:09.200" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""does is it scans there's the current default as it scans""" start="00:23:13.960" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""the entire file for all of the searches.""" start="00:23:17.240" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""It finds the window that that has the highest score. So it kind""" start="00:23:20.055" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""of goes through entire file and just says... And it kind of finds""" start="00:23:25.960" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""like the piece of the section of text that has the most""" start="00:23:29.600" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""matches with the terms that score the best. So it's, I mean,""" start="00:23:33.480" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that section is pretty good. I mean, that, so yeah, that,""" start="00:23:37.920" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that ends up working pretty well. So I mean, in terms of other""" start="00:23:40.120" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""UI stuff, there's, there's tons, there's tons more that""" start="00:23:44.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""could be done, like, especially like debug ability or like""" start="00:23:46.880" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""introspection. Like, so this, this result, like, for""" start="00:23:50.160" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""example, this result ranks really high. Maybe you don't""" start="00:23:53.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""know why though. It's like, because of this, this text query""" start="00:23:57.120" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""arrow, was it because of this criteria? I think""" start="00:24:01.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""there's some UI elements that could kind of help the user""" start="00:24:04.480" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""understand why results are scoring high or low. So that's""" start="00:24:09.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""definitely... And that makes a lot of sense to me. You know, a""" start="00:24:12.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""lot of it is demystifying, like understanding what you're""" start="00:24:15.640" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""learning better and not just finding the right thing. A lot""" start="00:24:19.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""of it is, you know, kind of exploring your data. I love that.""" start="00:24:22.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Thanks. Okay. I'm not trying to hurry us through either by""" start="00:24:26.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""any stretch. I would be happy to see this be a conversation.""" start="00:24:31.640" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I also want to be considerate of your time. And I also wanted to""" start="00:24:36.600" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""make a quick shout out to everybody who's been updating and""" start="00:24:42.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""helping us capture the questions and the comments and the""" start="00:24:45.480" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""etherpad. That's just a big help to the extent that people""" start="00:24:50.480" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""are jumping in there and you know, revising and extending""" start="00:24:53.640" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""and just doing the best job we can to capture all the""" start="00:24:57.200" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""thoughtful remarks.""" start="00:24:59.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Yeah, thank you, Zac. I'm not too sure what to ask anymore,""" start="00:25:00.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""but yes, would love to try it out now. Yeah, I mean,""" start="00:25:14.840" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""definitely feel free to...""" start="00:25:20.560" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""any feedback, here's my mail, or issues...""" start="00:25:22.077" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I mean I'm happy to get any any feedback. It's""" start="00:25:25.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""still in the early stages, so still kind of a lot of""" start="00:25:29.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""documentation that needs to be writing. There's a lot.""" start="00:25:31.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""There's a lot on the roadmap, but yeah, I mean, hopefully, I""" start="00:25:35.600" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""could even publish this to ELPA and have a nice""" start="00:25:38.440" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""manual so yeah hopefully yeah those come soon. Epic.""" start="00:25:42.760" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""That sounds great, yes.""" start="00:25:47.728" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""The ability to save your searches kind of reminds me of like""" start="00:25:50.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""the gptel package for the AI, where you can save searches,""" start="00:25:59.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""which makes it feel a lot more different. 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But on the flip side, it's like,""" start="00:35:14.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""why does Emacs get this consult-omni package? Or let's see,""" start="00:35:18.760" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""you have elfeed-youtube where it will put a flowing""" start="00:35:25.120" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""transcript on a YouTube video or you got your package. Why""" start="00:35:30.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""does it get all these applications? And I don't see""" start="00:35:34.480" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""applications like this as much outside of Emacs. 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If you grab people by the UX, you can sell""" start="00:35:51.440" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""a million of any product that solves problem that I didn't""" start="00:35:58.120" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""think technology could solve, or that I didn't think I had""" start="00:36:01.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""the patience to use technology to solve, which is a lot of""" start="00:36:04.640" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""times what it comes down to. And here exactly is the, you""" start="00:36:08.320" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""know, the the Emacs sort of conundrum, right? How much time""" start="00:36:12.160" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""should I spend today updating my Emacs so that tomorrow I can""" start="00:36:16.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""just work more, right? And, you know, I love that little""" start="00:36:20.760" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""graph of the Emacs learning curve, right? Where it's this""" start="00:36:26.320" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""concentric, it becomes this concentric spiral, right? The""" start="00:36:29.840" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Vim learning curve is like a ladder, right? Or, you know, and""" start="00:36:33.400" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""And the nano learning curve is like just a flat plane, you""" start="00:36:38.760" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""know, or a ladder, a vertical ladder or a horizontal ladder.""" start="00:36:44.120" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""There we go. And the Emacs learning curve is this kind of""" start="00:36:49.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""straight up line until it curves back on itself and""" start="00:36:56.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""eventually spirals. And the more you learn, the harder it is""" start="00:36:59.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""to learn the next thing. And are you really moving forward at""" start="00:37:03.080" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""all? Like, it just works for me. What a great analogy. And""" start="00:37:05.840" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that's my answer, I think. Yeah. You know, it's because""" start="00:37:09.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""we... The spiral is great. Sorry. There are each of these""" start="00:37:15.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""weird little packages that some of us, you know, it solves""" start="00:37:20.200" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that one problem and lets us get back to work. And for others,""" start="00:37:26.640" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""it makes us go, gosh, now that makes me rethink a whole bunch""" start="00:37:29.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""of things because there's... Like I don't even know what""" start="00:37:32.440" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""you're talking about with some of your conceptualizations""" start="00:37:35.240" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""of UI. Maybe it comes from Visual Studio, and I've not""" start="00:37:37.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""used that or something. So for you, it's a perfectly normal UX""" start="00:37:41.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""paradigm that you kind of lean on for others. It's like you""" start="00:37:44.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""know occupying some screen space and I don't know what the""" start="00:37:48.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""gadgets do and when I open them up... They're thinking""" start="00:37:52.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""about... they have... they imply their own""" start="00:37:57.760" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""abstractions let's say logically against a programming""" start="00:38:01.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""language. This would be tree sitter, right. If i'm not used to""" start="00:38:03.640" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""thinking in terms of an abstract abstract syntax tree, some""" start="00:38:07.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""of the concepts just aren't as natural for me. If i'm used to""" start="00:38:11.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""like emacs at a more fundamental level is, or the old modes""" start="00:38:14.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""right, we're used to them thinking in terms of progressing""" start="00:38:19.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""forward through some text, managing a stack of markers into""" start="00:38:23.480" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""the text, right? It's a different paradigm. The world""" start="00:38:26.960" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""changes. Emacs kind of supports it all. That's why all the""" start="00:38:29.240" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""apps are built there. That's why when you're talking about""" start="00:38:33.560" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that spiral. what that hints at is that this is really just a""" start="00:38:37.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""different algorithm that you're transferring out that""" start="00:38:40.760" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""makes some things a lot easier and some things a lot harder.""" start="00:38:44.240" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""That's why I was bringing in those three packages, because""" start="00:38:47.320" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""in some way it's making these search terms with reusable...""" start="00:38:51.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Let's see... saveable buffers or interactive buffers in a way""" start="00:38:59.709" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that... in a way, that is bigger than what I think it should have,""" start="00:39:07.084" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""especially in comparison to like how many people use""" start="00:39:10.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""YouTube, but I don't see very many YouTube apps that will""" start="00:39:15.480" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""show Rolling subtitle list that you can click on to move up""" start="00:39:20.320" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""and down the video""" start="00:39:26.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""even though YouTube's been around for years.""" start="00:39:27.316" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Why does Emacs have a very good implementation""" start="00:39:30.140" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that was duct taped together? So before I let you respond to""" start="00:39:33.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that, Zac, let me just say we're coming up on eating up a""" start="00:39:37.160" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""whole half hour of your lunchtime and thank you for giving us""" start="00:39:40.440" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that extra time. But let me just say, let's, you know, if I""" start="00:39:43.880" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""could ask you to take like up to another five minutes and then""" start="00:39:47.880" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I'll try to kick us off here and make sure everybody does""" start="00:39:50.880" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""remember to eat.""" start="00:39:53.760" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Yeah, so yeah, it looks like there's one other question. So""" start="00:39:55.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""yeah, do you think Emacs being kind of slow will get in the way""" start="00:40:04.120" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""of being able to run a lot of scoring algorithms? So this is""" start="00:40:06.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""actually a thought I had. Yeah, Emacs, because the code""" start="00:40:11.320" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""currently kind of does, I mean, it kind of does, it's kind of""" start="00:40:15.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""dumb in a lot of places. a lot of times it just, it does just go""" start="00:40:19.920" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""through all the files and then just compute some score for""" start="00:40:24.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""them. But I'm surprised that it's, that part actually isn't""" start="00:40:27.600" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that slow. Like, like it turns out like, okay, like if you""" start="00:40:30.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""take, for example, Emacs, like the Emacs directory or the""" start="00:40:34.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Emacs Git repository, or maybe another big Git repository,""" start="00:40:40.760" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""like you could have an Elisp function enumerate those, and""" start="00:40:44.880" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""multiply some numbers, maybe multiply 10 numbers""" start="00:40:49.080" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""together. And that isn't that slow. And that's the bulk of""" start="00:40:52.600" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""what the only thing that Elisp has to do is just like multiply""" start="00:41:01.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""these numbers. Obviously, if you have to resort to Elisp to""" start="00:41:05.800" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""search all the files and you have like 10 or 100,000 files,""" start="00:41:11.600" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""then yeah, Emacs will be slow""" start="00:41:15.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""to manually search, like if you're not using ripgrep or any""" start="00:41:18.760" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""faster tool and you have, and you have millions of files and""" start="00:41:23.960" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""yeah, it will be slow. But what I noticed though is like, for""" start="00:41:26.840" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""example, let's say you want to search for, let's say you want""" start="00:41:30.960" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""to search like info directory, like info files for Emacs and""" start="00:41:35.120" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""the Emacs info file and the Elisp info file. So those are two""" start="00:41:40.200" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""decently sized kind of books, kind of like reference""" start="00:41:46.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""material on Emacs.""" start="00:41:49.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Relying on Elisp to search both of those together, it's""" start="00:41:50.200" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""actually pretty, it's actually like almost instant. I""" start="00:41:56.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""mean, it's not slow enough. So I think that's""" start="00:41:58.080" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""another thing is like scale. Like I think on, on kind of like""" start="00:42:00.640" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""individual human level scales, I think Elisp can be good""" start="00:42:03.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""enough. if you're going on the scale of like enterprise,""" start="00:42:09.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""like all the repositories, all the Git repositories of an""" start="00:42:14.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""enterprise, then yeah, that scale might, it might, it might""" start="00:42:18.400" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""be too much. But I think on, on the scale of what most""" start="00:42:21.200" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""individuals have to deal with on a daily basis, like for""" start="00:42:26.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""example, maybe somebody has some, yeah, I mean, I think it""" start="00:42:30.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""should, I think it hopefully should be enough. And if not,""" start="00:42:34.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""there's always room for optimizations.""" start="00:42:36.960" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Yeah, so so I'll redirect you a little bit because based on a""" start="00:42:39.640" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""couple of things I got into, you know, or if you want to be done""" start="00:42:56.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""be like, you know, give me the hi sign by all means and we can""" start="00:43:00.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""we can shut up shop, but I'm curious, you know, what are what""" start="00:43:04.760" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""are your boundary conditions? What what tends to cause you""" start="00:43:08.640" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""to to to write something more complicated and what what""" start="00:43:13.080" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""causes you to? So to work around it with more complex""" start="00:43:16.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""workflow in Emacs terms, like where do you break out the big""" start="00:43:20.960" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""guns? Just thinking about, like search, we talked about,""" start="00:43:23.560" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""maybe that's too abstract a question, but just general""" start="00:43:27.920" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""usage. Search is an example where almost all of us have""" start="00:43:31.440" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""probably written something to go find something, right?""" start="00:43:36.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Yeah, I mean, this is a good question. I'm actually of the""" start="00:43:39.600" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""idea, at my work, for example, I tried to get rid of all, I""" start="00:43:43.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""mean, this is probably a typical Emacs user thing, but like,""" start="00:43:52.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I mean, I think that just like getting, just like having""" start="00:43:54.880" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Emacs expand to whatever it can get into and whatever it can""" start="00:43:59.320" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""automate, like any task, any, like, just like the more you""" start="00:44:02.560" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""can kind of get that coded, I actually find that kind of like,""" start="00:44:08.840" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""I mean, it is kind of like a meme. Like, yeah, I have to""" start="00:44:13.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""configure my Emacs until it's fun, and then I'll do it. But I""" start="00:44:20.440" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""actually I actually think that maybe for like a normal""" start="00:44:24.200" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""software developer, if you invest, if you invest, maybe,""" start="00:44:27.960" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""maybe you have like some spare time after you've done all""" start="00:44:32.000" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""your tasks, if you invest all that time in, in just like kind""" start="00:44:34.840" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""of going through all the workflows, all the, you know, just,""" start="00:44:39.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""just getting all of that in, in Emacs, then I think that that,""" start="00:44:42.360" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""that acts as kind of like a, it kind of like a productivity""" start="00:44:46.280" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""multiplier. And so. So I found that, I mean, I found to not""" start="00:44:52.040" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""have those boundaries. I mean, obviously there's things""" start="00:44:56.760" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""you can't do, like web-based things. I mean, that's a hard""" start="00:44:59.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""boundary, but that's more because... Yeah, there's really""" start="00:45:04.600" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""not much to do about that. Nobody's written a front-end""" start="00:45:10.200" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""engine, and too much of the forebrain is occupied with""" start="00:45:13.720" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""things that should happen on the "end-users""" start="00:45:18.760" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""infrastructure", so to speak. So with like 40 seconds left, I""" start="00:45:22.560" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""was going to say a minute, but I guess, any final thoughts?""" start="00:45:29.840" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""Yeah, I mean, just thank you for listening, and And thank you""" start="00:45:33.520" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""for putting this on. It's a really nice conference to have,""" start="00:45:40.160" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""and I'm glad things like this exist. So thank you. Yeah, it's""" start="00:45:45.560" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""you and the other folks on this call. Thank you so much,""" start="00:45:50.680" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""PlasmaStrike, and all the rest of you for hopping on the BBB""" start="00:45:54.640" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""and having such an interesting discussion. Keeps it really""" start="00:45:58.640" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""fun for us as organizers. And thanks, everybody, for being""" start="00:46:03.120" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]] [[!template text="""here.""" start="00:46:08.240" video="qanda-p-search" id="subtitle"]]