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Wait, I didn't know Everything can full search text ? is it like search preview in macOS ?

• porridgeraisin 3y ago
  Sorry, I meant that you can fuzzy find the filenames, not the contents. For the latter, explorer top right search bar can do it surprisingly. As for a tool with an index, recoll comes to mind.
  • aragonite 3y ago
    You can use the "si:" prefix in Everything alpha to query Windows index. https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=9793 https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=9793 I have some use scenario (finding backlinks in a folder containing thousands of markdown files) where this method fits perfectly and returns results instantaneously (even ripgrep takes a second or two to find all the backlinks as it doesn't use an index). Unfortunately the text snippet showing the context that you get in explorer is not easily retrievable via Windows API. I made a suggestion [1] to the author and he seems open to implement it. [1] https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13739 https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13739
    • porridgeraisin 3y ago
      Wow, that's amazing! Let me know how recoll works for you, if you try it. It can search within XML stuff like word docs, PDFs and can even do OCR.
  • 8n4vidtmkvmk 3y ago
    I use astrogrep for searching file contents on windows, it's pretty fast. Not nearly as fast as everything but I guess that's the nature of searching full contents. Just restrict by file type and filter out node modules and it's fast enough
    • majkinetor 3y ago
      dngep is great. It can also use everything