[Solved] Search indexing of a local source folder..

[Hultan]

I have a pretty large folder containing all the source code for my personal projects. I often want to search that folder for, for example, variable names or function names, to find specific parts of code. Basically I want to google search my code...

I was thinking of doing this myself as another one of my coding projects, but I want to at least see if there are already existing products like this.

Some features that I want:

* Parse different languages (Go, Vala, Python, ...)
* Ability to exclude keywords from those languages
* Exclude certain type of files, non-text files, asset files etc
* Preferably an easy to use GUI for searching (CLI would work though, I could write the GUI on top of the CLI)
* Tooltip showing a few lines of code (containing the match) when hovering the search hits, or something similar...
* Advanced search : wildcards, [word] NEAR [word], etc
* ...

[spamegg]

You can use a modern IDE to do all that "global searching" type of stuff. For example JetBrains IDEs such as IntelliJ or PyCharm, and Visual Studio Code have a "global search" option with Ctrl+Shift+F (or some variant). Here is a typical example:

You can use grep on the Terminal for pretty much everything you listed. Learning grep properly is an extremely good investment in the long term, it pays off quite well!

You can also use the GUI version vizigrep by installing apt install vizigrep (the colors look crap on my theme, but don't mind that):

[Hultan]

Well, CTRL+SHIFT+F search in the current project only, and I use that all the time in GoLand. What I am looking for is a way to search all projects in my entire code library. For example, if I know that I have a solution to a certain problem in another project, but I don't remember which project.

And the vizigrep solution, that searches the folder every search correct? That might not be a problem, but I was thinking of an indexing solution. I will look into vizigrep though, maybe that is fast enough...

[spamegg]

You can open your "entire code library" as the "current project" but I guess that might be too slow. Some IDEs do build indexes though, you'd have to look into that more.

There are some interesting ideas for how to manually build indexes here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/773 ... -indexable

Maybe look into Ack, it says it's specifically designed for large source bases: https://beyondgrep.com/ It's in the repositories: apt install ack

[Rooo]

^^^ will be trying those later,thanks


being a noob I love this


"FSearch is a fast file search utility, inspired by Everything Search Engine. It's written in C and based on GTK3."

https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch

[Hultan]

A lot of interesting projects you link to...I especially like codesearch, since it was written in Go I'll have to look into that...

I tried to open my entire code folder in Goland, and it seems to do the job, and it is fairly quick. A little bit annoying though that you'll have to open the entire folder in another Goland instance, but I guess that is doable and fairly quick the second time. Maybe there is a way to search the entire index even if you have only one subfolder open, but right now I don't know if that is possible. It certainly is indexing the entire folder, so maybe? I might have to contact JetBrains support and ask about this...downside though, I don't know how it handles searching in other languages, like my Vala projects, or Python projects...anyway, I'll have to look into that as well.

Fsearch is also very close to what I want, except maybe I would like some preview of each search hit (in a tooltip, or a readonly preview to the right, or...).

Anyway, thanks for all you suggestions...