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alanglloyd@aol.com
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 Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 3:10 pm Post subject: Win XP Search for "File Containing Word" is Broken |
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I often wish to search for a word in a .pas file and the search
function in Win 98 works OK. Not so in Win XP (which I have just moved
to) which did not return known words in .pas files.
The story is that each file type to be searched for words has to have a
"filter" to generate a catalogue of all the words in the file (I
presume to throw out apparent "words" which are actually formatting or
garbage content).
Microsoft supplies filters only for its own file types (what other
types are there anyhow <g>). But one can utilize a plain text filter
and accept that incorrect and garbage content may occur.
The filter implements an IFilter interface and its GUID must be
specified in a "PersistentHandler" key of the HKCR/<filetype> key in
the registry.
Below is the content of a .reg file which does that for .pas and .dpr
files. You might have to reboot after double-clicking on this .reg file
in order to get it to work.
Usual disclaimer of any responsibility for any effect on your system
from using this suggestion.
Copy the contents into a .reg text file and double-click it in Windows
Explorer.
Alan Lloyd
Contents of PasDpr_Search.reg ...
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.pasPersistentHandler]
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.dprPersistentHandler]
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"
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Paul Dunn
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| Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 3:44 pm Post subject: Re: Win XP Search for "File Containing Word" is Broken |
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[email]alanglloyd (AT) aol (DOT) com[/email] wrote:
| Quote: | The story is that each file type to be searched for words has to have
a "filter" to generate a catalogue of all the words in the file (I
presume to throw out apparent "words" which are actually formatting or
garbage content).
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I turned off the indexing service. Works fine here now :-)
D.
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Michael Brown
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| Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 11:49 am Post subject: Re: Win XP Search for "File Containing Word" is Broken |
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[email]alanglloyd (AT) aol (DOT) com[/email] wrote:
| Quote: | I often wish to search for a word in a .pas file and the search
function in Win 98 works OK. Not so in Win XP (which I have just moved
to) which did not return known words in .pas files.
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That's just the start of it ... it will often skip folders, insists on
searching zip files, suffers from both false positives (no idea how they
manage this one) and false negatives, and generally sucks. It seems to me
like they tried to make an intelligent (google-desktop style) search, but
failed completely resulting in something which is both useless for low-level
(Win2K and prior style) searching and also useless for intelligent
(google-desktop style) searching.
In fact, I hate it with such a passion that I spent a while writing a
high-performance replacement for it (see my "Hackish file -> string trick"
post for the fun trick it uses). For intelligent searching, I use the Google
desktop search. For low-level searching I use my own searcher. I don't think
I've used the Windows XP search program in quite a while now ...
[...]
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Michael Brown
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Marco van de Voort
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| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 3:52 pm Post subject: Re: Win XP Search for "File Containing Word" is Broken |
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On 2005-09-09, [email]alanglloyd (AT) aol (DOT) com[/email] <alanglloyd (AT) aol (DOT) com> wrote:
| Quote: | I often wish to search for a word in a .pas file and the search
function in Win 98 works OK. Not so in Win XP (which I have just moved
to) which did not return known words in .pas files.
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There is a perfect tool for this, delivered with nearly each Borland
product.
It is called "grep"
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alanglloyd@aol.com
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| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:18 pm Post subject: Re: Win XP Search for "File Containing Word" is Broken |
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I have no reference to grep in Delphi help or on my PC. Isn't it some
sort of Unix search engine. I'm familiar with regular expressions in
Delphi search (and in Brief) but I wanted a "content search of any
file" search not just a search within a single known file.
Alan Lloyd
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Henry Bartlett
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J French
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 8:54 am Post subject: Re: Win XP Search for "File Containing Word" is Broken |
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On 30 Sep 2005 11:18:27 -0700, "alanglloyd (AT) aol (DOT) com"
<alanglloyd (AT) aol (DOT) com> wrote:
| Quote: | I have no reference to grep in Delphi help or on my PC. Isn't it some
sort of Unix search engine. I'm familiar with regular expressions in
Delphi search (and in Brief) but I wanted a "content search of any
file" search not just a search within a single known file.
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Grep came from Unix, but there are plenty of DOS versions
It will search multiple files
Personally I prefer the good old Norton Utilities TS and FF
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