Yuan Fu

Yes, the pre-compiled binary are for intel Macs. You need to compile the module locally. After compiling, do you see xapian-lite.so under the same directory as deft.el? Does running `make...

Ah, I know why it doesn't work now. I pushed a fix. Could you pull and try again? You can either run `make xapian-lite.so PREFIX=/opt/local` in project root or call...

I thought homebrew on ARM Mac uses `/opt/local`, turns out it's actually `/opt/homebrew`. So you want to use `make xapian-lite.so PREFIX= /opt/homebrew`.

Yeah, I didn't add support for that variable. Xapian works by indexing words in a file to a database and querying the database when searching, so it can't search regex...

Yeah maybe it isn't that good of an idea to use xapian for deft, since there are quite a few deft features that xapian cannot support: regex, filename-only, plus it's...

There really are two typos.... I fixed the title but I don't think I can fix the commit :P

Fantastic! I corrected typos 😄

I thought I'll PR if you like it. 😄

Ok! I certainly don't have the time and knowledge to implement this feature. If no one is interested feel free to close this issue :)

This and #228 could use some similar fix: detect them early and report an uninformative help. I'll look into it once I found some time.