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recoll package does not provide recollq which Emacs needs |
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Wed, 19 Apr 2023 04:52:20 +0000 |
Dear Guix,
I am experimenting with using Recoll to help me discover topical files on my
computer. I'm finding it very helpful, but I would rather eschew the QT
interface in favor of sticking with Emacs.
There is an existing package which integrates with recoll interactively through
"consult" on ELPA. Unfortunately, it depends on recoll providing an executable
called recollq. Yet, recollq is not currently provided the recoll package in
Guix. However, strangely the recollq man page is. The HTML documentation in the
source tarball suggests it is not always built, but being unfamiliar with these
complex auto-configured Makefile-based workflow I couldn't find a way to enable
it.
While I have found that `recoll -t' lets me make plain text queries from a
database at a shell prompt, I was unsuccessful substituting `recollq' with
`recoll -t' in the Emacs extension package since recollq apparently needed to
be a file on the path. It would seem to me a lot less janky to just include
that file. I included what I tried in the package recipe for
emacs-consult-recoll below.
Thanks,
Kyle
P.S. - Here is the package recipe I made for emacs-consult-recoll based on the
ELPA importer and reading the consult-recoll web page to simplify the
description.
```
(use-modules
(gnu packages)
(guix packages)
(guix download)
(guix build utils)
((guix licenses) #:prefix license:)
(guix build-system emacs)
(gnu packages emacs-xyz))
(define-public emacs-consult-recoll
(package
(name "emacs-consult-recoll")
(version "0.8")
(source (origin
(method url-fetch)
(uri (string-append
"https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/consult-recoll-"; version
".tar"))
;; (modules '((guix build utils)))
;; (snippet
;; (substitute* "consult-recoll.el"
;; (("recollq") "recoll -t -n 0")))
(sha256
(base32
"02vg1rr2fkcqrrivqgggdjdq0ywvlyzazwq1xd02yah3j4sbv4ag"))))
(build-system emacs-build-system)
(propagated-inputs (list emacs-consult))
(home-page "https://codeberg.org/jao/consult-recoll";)
(synopsis "Recoll queries using a consult interface in Emacs")
(description
" This package provides an emacs interface to perform recoll queries,
and display its results, via consult. It is also recommened that you
use a a package for vertical display of completions that works well
with consult, such as vertico.
Recoll is a local search engine that knows how to index a wide variety
of file formats, including PDFs, org and other text files and
emails. It also offers a sophisticated query language, and, for some
document kinds, snippets in the the found documents actually matching
the query at hand.")
(license license:gpl3)))
```
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Re: bug#62946: recoll package does not provide recollq which Emacs needs |
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Tue, 03 Oct 2023 22:22:50 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) |
kiasoc5 <kiasoc5@disroot.org> writes:
> I updated recoll to the latest version and added the recollq binary in
> #62971. Can you see if that works?
I'm happy to assume it does; the updated package has a 'recollq' command
under bin.
Closing!
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Thanks,
Maxim
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