Everything 1.5 Alpha • Re: File types known to Everything

A list of file types known to Everything:

Hi Void.
Everything is FAST!, and I have 65 MB of VBA code on my data partition.
That 65 MB represents VBA in some 20,000 MSOffice files.

My proprietary LIB files are searchable (fairly fast using the inbuilt INSTR function), but searching types of files with Everything would allow me to search not only by content, but also by Date, Size etc. Everything is rich in searchable properties whereas my proprietary MSWord/VBA application "Proje.dot" is Poor.
If there is an easy way to tell strange container-types to be treated a text it would reduce my time taken to locate program code.

Once I have located a close match with Everything, my Proje.dot comes into its own because I see a term in a procedure and that helps me to refine my search. Repeated drilling-down and clarification usually locates something I misplaced years ago in under a minute, which is excellent for 65 MB of source code.

(1) For over twenty years I have used my proprietary MSWord/VBA application "Proje.dot" to accumulate every piece of VBA source code on a disk drive into a text file with an extent of LIB.In Notepad it shows as a plain text file, which it is.
The pointers around each Procedure (a collection of lines of code) are chains to Modules, Projects, Files, Folders and Drives.
As a text file, my *.LIB could be located by Everything once I tell Everything that my LIB files are just plain text.
Please and Thank you - how do I do that?

(2) In a similar vein, I open an MSWord *.DOT template using Notepad.exe and I can see enough in the Notepad application to identify a procedureHow would I tell Everything that for THIS session I want *.DOT files to be treated as plain text files rather than MSOffice proprietary files?

(3) In general, we can have strange container files that contain text in proprietary encoded forms of data. I suspect that Everything could be told to treat any sort of file (by extent) as a text file. That the text file is not complete matters little; but locating the file that contains the text will usually be enough to steer us towards the actual text.

This ability to treat proprietary formats as text ought to be useful to programmers in most languages,I would think.We often find ourselves thinking "I know I solved that ten years ago". At least I do!
Thanks, Chris

Statistics: Posted by ChrisGreaves — Mon Jan 13, 2025 5:15 pm

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