derelict
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# Posted: 30 Jul 2007 13:33
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TextCrawler is *almost* my ideal text-search tool. It does almost all of the things that I wanted, including:
- use unix-style regular expressions
- search across subdirectories
- remember past search directories in a list
- allow saving results in a text file
The only thing that I don't like about it, is that it only shows results for one file at a time. It shows all the files that had hits in one window, then you click on a file to see the hits for that file in a separate window. That is a very awkward implementation, from my viewpoint.
For example, a common problem that I want to find the function i_am_a_commonly_used_function() in one of 20 or 30 files, scattered across several directories. So I'll search for that function using TextCrawler, and it will show all the files which have that string in them - however, only ONE of the (let's say) 75 hits is actually the function, the rest are all calls to the function. Having to click one file at a time to look for my hit, nearly defeats the value of the tool.
I've used a couple of different shareware tools which do this job perfectly well, but was really hoping to find a freeware tool that did it. I've posted a suggestion to the support forum, but haven't gotten any replies, and I don't even know if the forum is actively monitored.
So, for now, I give it 4 out of 5 on the rating scale. If they'd add that one last feature, it would be the full 5 points!!
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