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Mentioned elsewhere, Everything search by voidtools: https://www.voidtools.com https://www.voidtools.com. It does funky things with monitoring some component of
by fake-name 4y ago
Mentioned elsewhere, Everything search by voidtools: https://www.voidtools.com https://www.voidtools.com. It does funky things with monitoring some component of the NTFS filesystem to maintain a up-to-date index of every filename on your computer, and makes them searchable literally as fast as you can type.
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33321000 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33321000)
There seems to be two kind of searching people do. Some people want a search tool that searches in documents. Some people want a search tool that searches filenames.
Everything search is exclusively the second. I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've wanted to search inside documents in the last 10+ years (and for those cases, grep has worked fine, even on windows!).
For some reason, searching inside documents seems to be the default for both windows and os x search, and it's super annoying.
- m000 4y ago> I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've wanted to search inside documents in the last 10+ years If you want to search documents you have created, I can imagine that you may not use the feature much. But e.g. for research papers, the downloaded copy rarely reflects the contents/authors, so it is really handy to be able to search the contents. > For some reason, searching inside documents seems to be the default for both windows and os x search, and it's super annoying. Weird. For me windows don't seem to search inside documents, or at least not in all documents.