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In my experience, it's a lot slower than Visual Studio's find-in-files and I prefer the VS Regex too.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
In my experience, it's a lot slower than Visual Studio's find-in-files and I prefer the VS Regex too.
- douche 10y agoI will grant you that, if I was searching files that are already under a solution that I have open. But opening VS takes considerably longer than opening Notepad++, even with all the plugins I have added to Notepad++. One of the most common cases for me is searching for some particular message in a directory full of unzipped log files that some customer has sent to us.
- bbcbasic 10y ago> I will grant you that, if I was searching files that are already under a solution that I have open. Also for general searching on the file system > But opening VS takes considerably longer than opening Notepad++ I will grant you that. If you have VS open all the time in your workflow its OK. > One of the most common cases for me is searching for some particular message in a directory full of unzipped log files that some customer has sent to us. `Grep` shines if you need to repeat the search query (perhaps you get more logs the next day). You can save to a .sh file and run it again and again. You can also pipe stuff around to do more advanced searches.