khoj/interface/emacs

• Emacs Semantic Search
  • Requirements
  • Installation
  • Usage

Emacs Semantic Search

An Emacs interface for semantic-search

Requirements

• Install and Run semantic-search

Installation

• Direct Install

  • Put semantic-search.el in your Emacs load path. For e.g ~/.emacs.d/lisp

  • Load via use-package in your ~/.emacs.d/init.el or .emacs file by adding below snippet

      ;; Org-Semantic Search Library
      (use-package semantic-search
        :load-path "~/.emacs.d/lisp/semantic-search.el"
        :bind ("C-c s" . 'semantic-search))

• Use Quelpa

  • Ensure Quelpa, quelpa-use-package are installed

  • Add below snippet to your ~/.emacs.d/init.el or .emacs config file and execute it.

      ;; Org-Semantic Search Library
      (use-package semantic-search
        :quelpa (semantic-search :fetcher url :url "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/debanjum/semantic-search/master/interface/emacs/semantic-search.el")
        :bind ("C-c s" . 'semantic-search))

Usage

1. Call semantic-search using keybinding C-c s or M-x semantic-search
2. Enter Query in Natural Language e.g "What is the meaning of life?" "What are my life goals?"
3. Wait for results Note: It takes about 15s on a Mac M1 and a ~100K lines corpus of org-mode files
4. (Optional) Narrow down results further Include/Exclude specific words from results by adding to query e.g "What is the meaning of life? -god +none"