| Re: Evaluating Foxtrot Personal Search [message #403 is a reply to message #401] |
Mon, 20 June 2016 09:48   |
FoxTrot Engineering
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'Rob Willett' via foxtrot-search wrote:
> So far we can do regexp filename searching and have a quick access method,
> what we can't seem to do is to gave the default of filename searching. This
> means we get more files back than we should.
FoxTrot Personal does not support regular expressions. FoxTrot Professional does, but only as a secondary criterion, for performance reasons.
FoxTrot Pro also lets you define some search templates, and choose which template to use when searching from the system menu or keyboard shortcut. However, if your template has multiple criteria (which is necessary if you use regular expressions), then the string you type in the system menu will only apply to the first criterion. So no, you can't search for regular expressions directly from FoxTrot Pro's system menu or keyboard shortcut.
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> Hi,
>
> I appear to be on a never ending quest to find a decent search system for
> my Mac. As I discover new apps, I'll try them out to discover they are
> based on Spotlight or some such nonsense. Spotlight needs taking out into a
> deep ocean, have a large concrete block tied to it and slipped over the
> side never to be seen again .
>
> Anyway, back to the real world, have downloaded Foxtrot Personal Search and
> am kicking the tyres.
>
> What I *mainly* want a search engine to do is
>
> 1) Search on filenames, using regular expressions. I am very happy to do
> complex regexp on filenames. The reason for this is maintenance of a lot of
> old code on our Macs and wanting to find files and THEN dig into them. 95%
> of my searches (if not more) are filename based. We have gazillions of
> files and we want a quick and easy way to get access to them. Foxtrot
> seems to do this OK.
>
> 2) We want to have a quick way to access the search. - Double hit control
> key is fine - so OK
>
> 3) We want the quick search default to filename searching. We don't want to
> have to change the type of search to filename searching which is what it
> appears we have to do now.
>
> 4) It needs to be quick, we know we can search directly the whole disk
> using find or FindFile or EasyFind or whatever. We would like a indexed
> search thats fast and simple and autoindexes.
>
> So far we can do regexp filename searching and have a quick access method,
> what we can't seem to do is to gave the default of filename searching. This
> means we get more files back than we should.
>
> Is this possible or does our never ending search go on :0
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob
>
>
Jérôme - FoxTrot Engineering
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