I still wish for something like Everything on Windows (https://www.voidtools.com/)
I wrote my own solution using fd + sqlite + fzf but it's nowhere as fast as Everything, and it also requires me to focus the Terminal to use it.
I wrote my own solution using fd + sqlite + fzf but it's nowhere as fast as Everything, and it also requires me to focus the Terminal to use it.
Don't know if it works on Ventura, not upgrading until I know.
"This version of Finda (629.0.0+df7956) is not compatible with your operating system version (22.1.0). Press Enter to download the latest version or Command+ to quit."
EDIT: e-mailed the Developer, beta release coming tomorrow...
How did one dev managed to achieve what, apparently, no corporate entity ever has?
But then again, they will almost certainly screw it up, given that Windows Search still can't search my start menu reliably without pauses. And their history with acquisitions and integrating tech isn't very good.
With Windows, it is death by a thousand paper cuts. With Linux, you might get your arm chopped off while getting every device (or sleep) to work flawlessly, but once it works, it stays working. And small things like search work like you expect them to.
How it catches all file writes to update that index near instantaneously, I have no idea.
I actually solved that by using the native macOS fsevents API which can watch the whole filesystem for changes, and I can instantly update the SQLite db I use for the index through that.
The problem is actually enumerating and searching the whole database, that's the slow part. Right now I have over 5 million rows in it and passing the SELECT results to fzf is the slowest part, taking a few seconds at least on an M1 Max.
I'm not sure how Everything presented the results so fast, with metadata and everything.
To your point regarding the slowness - in that case it's not really acting as an index though, is it, if you're scanning the whole list and passing it to fzf?
A proper fuzzy text search index (I think elastic and similar engines have these built-in) should yield orders of magnitude better performance.
In the end I might have to reimplement that in Swift with an always cached index and native Spotlight like search bar to really make this as easy to use as I want.
It's not practical to reach for the browser or Terminal to do this search.