[dzek69]

This is great tool, I use it everyday, but far from it's Windows based original Everything.

Also this is anbandoned apparently, which makes me extra sad, because it lacks few crucial features like: - being able to just remove a file from the index if you delete it from the app directly (insted it shows a window how it "soon" gonna be implemented) - while i understand that indexing service is more complex job - at least caching the index would be nice, because right now when i start the app i have to wait for it to index everything again, but usually i search for files that exists for a long time, not these that was created between my fsearch uses

So yeah. Cool dead and incomplete piece of software ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ From time to time I look for better alternative, if you happen to know one - let me know.

[wander_homer]

Hi, I'm the author of this little piece of software.

> Also this is anbandoned apparently, which makes me extra sad, because it lacks few crucial features like:

PersonalIy I wouldn't call it abandoned. I'm still working on it — not as often as I'd like to, but I'm still making progress towards the next release. Though it's still months away from being released.

> - being able to just remove a file from the index if you delete it from the app directly (insted it shows a window how it "soon" gonna be implemented)

That feature is already implemented, but there are no official builds with it yet, because other parts of the software haven't been updated after the rewrite of the database engine (e.g. loading/saving the database file is broken at the moment). Once the old feature set is working again, I'll publish the first official dev builds of the 0.3 release.

> while i understand that indexing service is more complex job - at least caching the index would be nice, because right now when i start the app i have to wait for it to index everything again, but usually i search for files that exists for a long time, not these that was created between my fsearch uses

This is already supported and part of the stable releases. The index is cached and loaded upon application start, so you can search right away, even while the new index is being built. You can also disable auto index updates when the application is launched, if you prefer manual or scheduled index update instead. Or do you mean something else?

[antisthenes]

What's the best way to help you with this project?

[eredengrin]

Last commit 2 weeks ago? Doesn't look dead. Perhaps not actively developed by original author but seems they're still acting as a maintainer and willing to take PRs.

[RachelF]

Me too - strangely, one of the reasons I stay on Windows is Everything (https://www.voidtools.com/) - it is just so useful.

[rkagerer]

I had Everything installed but didn't use it as much as expected. I've gravitated toward FileLocator Pro instead, which uses extremely fast metadata table searching instead of requiring an index (I don't use the Agent Ransack features).

Not a Linux expert, but out of curiosity did you try Recoll when you looked at other platforms? (https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/pages/index-recoll.htm...)

[BOOSTERHIDROGEN]

What is the pattern syntax you use most often?

[rand0mx1]

Try this one

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33816014

[hiAndrewQuinn]

fd (fdfind on some distributions)

[drekipus]

rg or fd?

[atoav]

rg if you want to find stuff in files

fd if you want to find stuff in filenames

fzf for when you want a fuzzy menu type of search on top of this.

I can't recommend fzf enough you can do some really powerful stuff with it. If you don't know it: it gives you a fuzzy search on things you pipe into it. It is powerful because it also can do things like running special commands ("preview") on the currently selected entry/line and allows for displaying the output in a separate pane.

So you could build a thing that e.g. let's you search and multiselect (enqueue) your music collection and on each entry display audio metadata using a custom script.

Or a blazingly fast PDF-content searcher that opens the PDF in the end. The possibilities are endless.

Edit: Here a short video showing my basic git log alias: https://youtu.be/9W27D8lrn-s

    gl: aliased to git log --all --pretty=oneline --pretty=format:"%Cgreen%h%Creset %s %Cred%d%Creset" --color=always | fzf --ansi --preview 'git show --pretty=medium --color=always $(echo {} | cut -d" " -f1)' | cut -d" " -f1

[mutant]

rg isn't really a file finder, it's a grepper.