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Show HN: Fast Incremental Plaintext Searcher
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Fast text search is really valuable -- if we could see comparisons it would help make judgements about which to use.
$10 is nothing and I already forgot how much did the restaurant dinner last night cost me, but I don't want to give money without knowing what am I getting in little more details and/or user-friendly marketing like tool comparison.
Without comparison to leading tools like ripgrep, the_silver_searcher and ugrep, this project will remain a passing curiosity. $10 is nothing and I already forgot how much did the restaurant dinner last night cost me, but I don't want to give money without knowing what am I getting in little more details and/or user-friendly marketing like tool comparison.
Comparing with others: ripgrep (MIT) mention filtering and shell completions, ugrep (MIT) - including a file indexer, searching in archives and fuzzy search, dnGrep (GPL3) - archives, s&r+undo, (as well) to line results in external editor and XPath.
Unfortunately can't test it. Virustotal says it's not network shy (IP Traffic) and unsafe (3/75 security vendors flagged this file as malicious) :(
Without comparison to leading tools like ripgrep, the_silver_searcher and ugrep, this project will remain a passing curiosity. $10 is nothing and I already forgot how much did the restaurant dinner last night cost me, but I don't want to give money without knowing what am I getting in little more details and/or user-friendly marketing like tool comparison.
Without comparison to leading tools like ripgrep, the_silver_searcher and ugrep, this project will remain a passing curiosity. $10 is nothing and I already forgot how much did the restaurant dinner last night cost me, but I don't want to give money without knowing what am I getting in little more details and/or user-friendly marketing like tool comparison.
Clean interface(*). Seems fast - does it index files ? (* nicer than grepWin (GPL) - more like BareGrep without source) Comparing with others: ripgrep (MIT) mention filtering and shell completions, ugrep (MIT) - including a file indexer, searching in archives and fuzzy search, dnGrep (GPL3) - archives, s&r+undo, (as well) to line results in external editor and XPath. Unfortunately can't test it. Virustotal says it's…
How does this compare to ugrep or others? Fast text search is really valuable -- if we could see comparisons it would help make judgements about which to use.
- Export results to file/clipboard/pipe
- Bookmarks: saved search presets
- Full search history (entries of source/filter/pattern)
- Built-in preview window
- Editor commands to jump to found matches (ex: gvim '$filepath' +$line)
- Drag/Drop found matches to an open text editor
- File dialog to select start directory
- Tab cycling of source filenames (console emulation)
- Logical operators coming soon (AND OR NOT XOR)
I suggest trying the free demo to get a better feel for the application.
Clean interface(*). Seems fast - does it index files ? (* nicer than grepWin (GPL) - more like BareGrep without source) Comparing with others: ripgrep (MIT) mention filtering and shell completions, ugrep (MIT) - including a file indexer, searching in archives and fuzzy search, dnGrep (GPL3) - archives, s&r+undo, (as well) to line results in external editor and XPath. Unfortunately can't test it. Virustotal says it's…
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…
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).