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gnunn

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Registered: 2013-10-21

Posts: 96

GTK 3 Visual Grep Utility

I'm looking for some feedback on GTK based grep utility I've written in D called Visual Grep. The utility is essentially a GUI version of grep similar to SearchMonkey but GTK based and conforming to Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) as much as possible. It requires at least GTK 3.1.6 to run.

The utility has the following features:

a. Obviously, supports regex (Uses D library, syntax info available here)
a. Searches run in background threads
b. It supports tabs and you can have multiple searches running concurrently
c. Searches in progress can be aborted
d. Supports case insensitive searches

At this point I would consider it pretty alpha and I'm looking for some feedback in terms of features and bugs.

To try it out, an alpha release binary is available from github here http://github.com/gnunn1/vgrep. Screenshots are also available there as well.

gnunn

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Registered: 2013-10-21

Posts: 96

Re: GTK 3 Visual Grep Utility

An arch package called visual-grep now exists for this in AUR.