Editing Beagle (software) (section)

== Features ==
Beagle searches the content of documents and associated metadata. Users can search for:
* Applications
* Archives ([[ZIP (file format)|zip]], [[tar (file format)|tar]], [[gzip]], [[bzip2]]) and their contents
* Conversations ([[Pidgin (software)|Pidgin]], [[Kopete]] and [[IRC]] logs)
* Documents ([[AbiWord]], [[OpenOffice.org]], [[Microsoft Office]], [[Portable Document Format|pdf]], [[.txt|txt]], [[Rich Text Format|rtf]], [[HTML]])
* [[Email]]s and address book contacts (from [[Novell Evolution|Evolution]], [[Mozilla Thunderbird]] (header info only) and [[KMail]])
* Help files ([[Texinfo]], [[man pages]])
* Images ([[Portable Network Graphics|png]], [[JPEG|jpg]], [[TIFF|tiff]], [[GIF|gif]], [[Scalable Vector Graphics|svg]])
* Music files ([[MP3|mp3]], [[ogg]], [[FLAC|flac]])
* Notes taken in [[Tomboy (software)|Tomboy]], [[KNotes]], and Labyrinth
* [[RSS (file format)|RSS]] feeds (via [[Blam (software)|Blam]] or [[Akregator]])
* [[Source code]] ([[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]], [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], [[Fortran]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[JavaScript]], [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal]], [[Perl]], [[PHP]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]] and more)
* Video files (through [[MPlayer]] or [[Totem (media player)|Totem]])
* Web history ([[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], [[Epiphany (web browser)|Epiphany]])

Beagle can also index additional file types not natively supported using external tools through a configuration file.

On Linux, Beagle efficiently indexes documents using [[inotify]] without the need for frequent reindexing.