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Just ignore your whole dev/code folder from Spotlight. It's not a good way to get to it anyway.

Is there an indexer in any operating system that's worth the aggravation? Windows Explorer's is hot garbage, and I've never been real impressed with any of the ones in my various Linux distributions.

Old-school grepping or using Notepad++'s find in files feature is far away the best method I've come across, which is... kinda sad.

The indexing itself is great - I use Everything [1] heavily.

The client on the other hand? It's baaad.

[1] http://www.voidtools.com/

I like Agent Ransack on Windows; much faster than the regular search. I've never looked into how it works.

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