I use multi-file search quite a bit, usually to search files of a particular type, say *.R. I use a *.R filter, but the search is extremely slow (I have projects located on mounted remote drives, and the project folders may contain thousands of files, but not very many *.R files). I think the slowness is partly due to slower access to the remote drives, but it is not mostly due to that. I see BBEdit displaying the names of ALL files in the project folders, not just the *.R files. I assume that it is just displaying the file name but not actually reading the file (I hope). I wonder if BBEdit could speed up multi-file search in the following ways:
1. Don't display the names of files that don't match the filter 2. If BBEdit is looking inside some files that are archive files, to see if any files in it match the filter, I'd like to be able to turn this off. I have a huge number of zipped files that are not relevant. 3. Instead of enumerating matching files itself, could BBEdit make use of the OS to do that? Could it, on unix-like systems, do something like "find <dir> name='*.R', to quickly get a list of matching files? ted -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
