MightyGrep - A text searching and file finding tool

[ksylvestre]

Hello All

I'm developing a cross-platform application and I'm looking for feedback from macOS users. With this application, you can search for text within files and for filenames themselves. It has been in development for a few months and now it's ready for public beta. There is a free demo for macOS in the provided link, the minimum system supported is OS X Mavericks 10.9. The demo is a universal binary so it is compatible with both arm and intel based systems

link to demo

 

[Basic75]

Can this do anything that grep, find, mdfind and friends can't do in a shell with a couple of pipes? Does the use of imgui increase the processor load?

 

[ksylvestre]

Incremental searching of pattern text, i.e. restarting the search as soon as new text is entered. You can provide an editor command with $filepath, $line, and $column replacement strings so you can jump to a match via left clicking a row. This program is also NFD aware when it comes to filename matching. There is a processor cost associated with imgui but the majority of time is spent waiting for the next frame.