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hulitu
on Oct 13, 2023
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Scrollbars are becoming a problem
Locate works great.
Jenda_
on Oct 13, 2023
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Locate is for file names, not file contents.
deepspace
on Oct 13, 2023
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ripgrep for contents
pseudalopex
on Oct 13, 2023
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ripgrep is fast for what it is. But indexes are faster.
Jenda_
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Additionally, I would expect indexing to extract text contents from non-plain-text formats. (such as Recoll does)
xtracto
on Oct 14, 2023
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How's its GUI? you know, because I was talking about GUI based file searching.
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