What I was thinking was to use the OS native search as a way to quickly find a candidate set of files, and then to manually winnow down from there. The indexer

What I was thinking was to use the OS native search as a way to quickly find a candidate set of files, and then to manually winnow down from there. The indexer would only help for a subset of queries: there are many queries it wouldn't help with at all. But it could help for many common ones. I suppose it depends on how the OS full text search is implemented: if it has hardwired NLP stuff in it, for example, it might not be useful at all.