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TurboSearch

TurboSearch

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TurboSearch is an extension for quickly searching through your codebase. It's a frontend for "The Silver Searcher (Ag)", a highly optimized command-line text searching tool.
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TurboSearch is a frontend for the excellent command line utility, The Silver Searcher (Ag).

Features

  • Search with regex or plain text
  • Selectable search roots (solution, current folder, and custom folders)
  • The results window matches your text editor colour scheme (dark theme supported!)
  • Supports ignoring files ignored by .gitignore and .hgignore
  • Result navigation keybinds

Setup

Simply install the extension, bind a keybind to TurboSearch.SearchForSelection (or use the default), and start searching!

TurboSearch is available as a 7-day free trial. After the trial expires licenses can be purchased at https://gumroad.com/l/turbosearch

Screenshots

TurboSearch Tool Window

Custom Search Roots

Default Keybinds

Command Keybind
Search for selection Alt-Shift-R
Go to next matching line Ctrl-R
Go to previous matching line Ctrl-Shift-R

Changelog

v1.0.15

  • Fix issue where search results would sometimes not update immediately

v1.0.14

  • Improve UI update speed
  • Fix command line escaping for arguments starting with -, and searches containing quotes

v1.0.12

  • Improve UI update speed
  • Display search duration in the UI

v1.0.11

  • Fixed issue where the search results occasionally would not update after the search completes

v1.0.9

  • Fixed search strings starting with - being incorrectly parsed as command line arguments
  • Escape \ characters in search string
  • Fix crash when a match on the first line of a file with a BOM is the last character on that line
Known Issues
  • Matches on the first line of a file with a byte order mark (BOM) may be offset incorrectly

v1.0.8

  • Initial release

Support

Please email feature requests and bug reports here.

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