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Funny you should mention BareGrep, the goal of this application was to make my own version of it with the features I wanted. No indexing, PCRE2 JIT search engine. Certain security vendors have been a thorn in my side ever since the beginning, I've reached out to see why they consistently flag my program but get crickets in response (Some of which don't even maintain a valid website certificate, see MaxSecure). I have…
Could you maybe provide a portable version as well ? - it's usually less flagged (less overhead) and easier to check which file could be an offender. BTW I'm using Everything Search with a column (!) showing content of a file with higlighted search terms - but there is no jump to line in preview option (as well new version changes accestimes).
How are you checking the access time? File Explorer's "Properties" window changes the access time in Windows 10, that tripped me up during development.