FreeLists / haiku-development / [haiku-development] Re: TrackerGrep [was Re: missing -lm?]

["Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Stephan Assmus" <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> I think TrackerGrep is great and IMHO it could be 
> part of the base Haiku distro.

+1. It's mostly developer oriented though.

I'm the current maintainer but I've been offline much 
lately, so it would be perfectly fine with me if Haiku 
would take ownership.

http://www.bebits.com/app/3782
http://dev.osdrawer.net/projects/trackergrep/

Some features I've been meaning to implement eventually:

-- Saving/opening full TrackerGrep state, for search reuse.

-- Optional negative search term(s), blocking search results
where the negative term occurs on the same line, within x
lines or within the same file. (Perhaps this is something 
grep supports.) GUI-wise it could look something like this:

[+] [ foo                    ]
[-] [ some unrelated foo     ]
[-] [ more unrelated foo     ]

or maybe like this

[ foo                    ][-]
[ some unrelated foo     ][-]
[ more unrelated foo     ]

like Tracker's Find (or classic MacOS' Finder).

-- Mirror search term in window tab:
"TrackerGrep /Basepath/ search-term"
(Multiple windows with concurrent greps is confusing.)

-- Node monitoring of search results, 
re-grepping single files on change

-- Native mode, where grep isn't run at all? 
I suppose grep is superfast, but who knows.

-- Identify untyped files, when in "text files only"-mode 

-- Support all available text encodings.

/Jonas.