https://github.com/64kramsystem/pm-spotlight

My desktop search program ("Poor Man's Spotlight"), written in Rust
https://github.com/64kramsystem/pm-spotlight

desktop-search fltk fuzzy-search gui linux rust spotlight

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My desktop search program ("Poor Man's Spotlight"), written in Rust

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/64kramsystem/pm-spotlight
• Owner: 64kramsystem
• License: agpl-3.0
• Created: 2022-04-12T20:25:17.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-01-26T17:25:18.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-10T10:19:32.616Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: desktop-search, fltk, fuzzy-search, gui, linux, rust, spotlight
• Language: Rust
• Homepage:
• Size: 2.25 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Poor Man's Spotlight

PMsS is a minimal desktop search service, designed to run with multiple backends, currently:

- configurable filesystem search

- emoji search

![Example](/resources/readme_images/example.png?raw=true)

## Nature of the project

The project is a tool I've written for myself, but it's also a research about writing GUIs in Rust versus Ruby.

The previous version of this project was written [in Ruby](https://github.com/64kramsystem/pm-spotlight-old), but had [very severe limitations](https://github.com/64kramsystem/pm-spotlight-old#status).

My current plan is to rewrite the Ruby project with updated version of the libraries (which solve the problems), and publish an article about writing GUIs in the two languages.

## Basic information

The file search configuration must be stored in `$HOME/.pm-spotlight`, and it's a TOML file with content like this:

```toml

search_paths = [

  "Desktop",

  "/usr/include_path{1}",

]

skip_paths = [

  "skip_path",

]

```

Paths not starting with `/` are relative to `$HOME`. Numbers in braces at the end of `search_path` entry are the search depth.

If the user types a pattern starting with a colon (`:`), the request will be sent to the emoji search backend.

Tapping enter on an entry will:

- file search: execute the file

- emoji: copy the emoji to the clipboard