I install multiple versions of LibreOffice as “parallel” (~portable) installs but I have to manually edit each version’s bootstrap.ini file to point it to my LibreOffice user profile. Also, by default it restores the previous “session” of open tabs. I like pulling up XML files (which I do sometimes edit, e.g., for FreeFileSync) in Notepad++ because it does a nice job of coloring the tags and different nesting levels, resulting in fewer mistakes for an incipient Mr. I’m not a coder, so I don’t have much call for advanced functions in programs like Notepad++ and, accordingly, don’t go looking for them. Notepad++ returns all hits sorted by file and line afterwards.Īll that is left is to go through the results line by line to find what you are looking for (which I did not by the way, but that is another story). The search time depends largely on your selection, but should not take long. Last but not least, you may use the replace option to replace the text you entered with other text.Ĭlick find all to get started. You may also enable match whole word or match case options, or switch from a normal search mode to an extended search mode or one that uses regular expressions. *.css or *.php, or file names, finance.* are included in the search. You can change filters, so that only certain file types, e.g. Optional parameters may be useful however. If you leave everything as is, Notepad++ will crawl all files of the selected root folder and all subfolders that it contains, and return all hits at the end of the search. Notepad++ searches all subfolders as well by default.Īll other fields are optional.
My main point was that since PDFs aren't plain-text you're not guaranteed accurate results unless you use an indexing service that understands the PDF format.Īnd if I'm reading that page right Method 2 should do what you want.What you need to configure are the following fields: This behavior occurs whether or not you use the Indexing service when you search. Windows XP does not search all file to enhance the performance of searching and to avoid extraneous results. In Microsoft Windows 2000 and earlier versions of Windows, all files are searched for the content that you specify. Here'a Microsoft KB article acknowledging this flaw with the implication they won't doing anything about it: Nothinman: it was the SAME PDF files where Win 2000 *could* find it and XP did not. Have you ever looked at the contents of a PDF? If the find in Win2k worked it was just dumb luck that the particular PDF you were looking for had that word in 1 of the few plain-text portions of the file and your awesome Pascal program would have the same problems.
I mean COME ON Microsoft! If 100+ comp sci undergrads every year could write the basic code to do this, why can't Microsoft? I'm a Computer Science graduate (of a long time ago) and a *class assignment* was to write a program (in Pascal at the time) to search files for some text supplied as input.
I can't comprehend how Microsoft finds it so hard to write/fix a Search function. Thing is, and I tested this, the same "Search." feature worked in Windows 2000! I remember not being happy about this and subsequently recommending Agent Ransack to users. Highly recommended.Įx, I remember encountering this problem with XP Search! Something glaring like not being able to search text within a PDF file(!) Apparently Microsoft knew about this and chose not to fix it.
I don't think it integrates with the Windows 7 explorer shell though With Windows XP I use a great utility called Agent Ransack which provides Windows Explorer context menu access to itself, enabling you to search any files for any kind of text. Or even craft your own Perl script to do it. Getting a good Grep implementation is better (Cygnus tools rings a bell). I did some research back in 2002 about the recognised filename extensions and XP's search, and the results were only a few hundred of the 17,000 "three character extensions" were searchable using Windows Explorer's search (and a small handful of longer 'extensions' in the ostensibly 'extension free' world of NTFS 5) xxy extension, Windows does't know squat about it (even if it's just a plain text file), so won't even look at that file.
doc file windows 'knows' how to search for text in that through the. It will only search for text based on the Class Identifier for the filename extension. One of the things that was very annoying about Windows XP was the limitations of its 'Search' ability.