Re: [gcmd-dev] Find files

[Uwe Scholz]

Hi Michael,

I quickly made a "git blame scr/dialogs/gnome-cmd-search-dialog.cc":
The last one who touched the search stuff was mainly Piotr. So I think
we can blame him. ;)

Interestingly, the Gnome Commander search is using Linux's "find" for
finding files and "grep" for searching in them: it creates some fancy
command lines and executes them internally, displaying the results in
the search dialog afterwards.

I also had the idea to use the Linux command "locate" to increase the
search process even more, as locate uses a local database cache instead
of really searching on the hard disc. If one could just activate the
usage of locate in the search dialog, this would be a nice feature, I
think. I would just need more time to implement that. :-D

Best
Uwe

Am Tue, 3 Apr 2018 20:57:23 +0200 schrieb Michael:

> Uwe,
> 
> I guess it's faster to just ask you :D
> 
> Just curious, who coded the 'Search files' thing (Ctrl+f) ?
> 
> I didn't really use this until now (since i'm used to commandlines)
> but It's pretty nice.
> 
> I remember we were discussing this a long time ago, and i wonder if
> Pjotr improved it so much (and didn't even tell).