"Find in Files" to work with Zip folders
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 5:14 pm
It's been a while now since Windows supported viewing zip files as folders natively.
It would be really useful if TextPad's "Find in Files" function would recognise a zip file as a folder, and search it just the same.
Where I work, a given build's source is normally available as a zip file,
and is only a few MB in size (about 1/5th of the original). Unpacking
it is a pain without an archiver [Windows native support is ridiculously slow at this, taking several minutes], but it would be realy useful if TP
could search these directly.
As an example, DepecheView v1.3.9 can load a 4.5MB zip file
containing about 22MB of source files in literally about 1-2 seconds.
And subsequent searching is lightening quick. Now, OK DV is just
a viewer (hence not a competitor to TP), but it illustrates my point.
- thm
It would be really useful if TextPad's "Find in Files" function would recognise a zip file as a folder, and search it just the same.
Where I work, a given build's source is normally available as a zip file,
and is only a few MB in size (about 1/5th of the original). Unpacking
it is a pain without an archiver [Windows native support is ridiculously slow at this, taking several minutes], but it would be realy useful if TP
could search these directly.
As an example, DepecheView v1.3.9 can load a 4.5MB zip file
containing about 22MB of source files in literally about 1-2 seconds.
And subsequent searching is lightening quick. Now, OK DV is just
a viewer (hence not a competitor to TP), but it illustrates my point.
- thm