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Re: Show HN: Posce, a note-taking toolkit for your command-line

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I actually want something like this. currently I just use Gnome Evolution for this since it syncs with my corporate EWS automatically. However, one thing I think must be required from such a tool is a full text search engine. The find subcommand appears to only use substrings or regular expressions which can be very limiting when trying to find that note you made about server xyz and some service abc on it. A regex t…

Can you give me a concrete example? I'd like to implement this capability, but I'm not sure what you're asking.

a search term or a regexp only matches on a single line. i think what op is asking is the ability to match multiple terms across multiple lines.

eg. i want to find all notes that contain the terms "linux" and "webserver" in any order anywhere in the note.

it may be possible to write a multiline regexp to do that, but it's not trivial, and this would be a common use case

Re: Show HN: Posce, a note-taking toolkit for your command-line

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I don't agree with the assumptions baked into the tool (eg env vars over config, new vs edit, no deletion), yet I like it being opinionated. Keep coding :)

i like the 'no deletion' attitude. so much can go wrong when writing custom code to delete stuff. as deletion here is trivial to do yourself using whatever preferred method and policy (like moving stuff to trash) you have to delete stuff, i do appreciate the decision to stay away from that.

for the env vars, i hope there are defaults that make even setting the env vars optional and not needed unless i want to change the defaults.

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