File content indexer for Ubuntu?

[Owen Thomas]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 at 10:39, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 at 03:04, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
>
>> I use Remembrance Agent. It's old, but its cooperation with Emacs (my
>> primary writing tool) is excellent.
>>
>
> Hi Peter.
>
> Thanks for the advice, however a cursory internet search led me down
> several dead ends. Is this Remembrance Agent software available as an
> install package?
>
>   Owen.
>

Hmmm... actually, I am hoping for something that'll give me a way to search
a directory tree as if it had been traversed by Google's indexers
(obviously not Google) that I can then use simply to enter phrases to
search on later. It would have to update its indexes when the contents of
any file in the directory tree were updated, and it could be great if it
also fully indexed archives within the directory tree. Although I could get
used to becoming a regular Emacs user, I'd rather hope there'd be a
solution that was more accessible straight from the Ubuntu desktop. :)

Thank you all the same for your suggestion.
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