Nautilus/Files content search in different files extensions

[sezamoracl (szmoracl)]

Hello,

I find it really usefull the content search into the files/nautilus browser, but I’ve tried to find where to allow content search in other files extensions, ie: .sh/.py.

From time to time I need to find some thing into this files, but I’ve notice that nautilus only search for content into certain type of files ( like *.txt ).

Where could I enable the option to include content search in other type of files.

Thanks in advance for any advice.
Regards.

ps.- I’ve tried to find something in Dconf and tracker miner configuration, but nothing relative to ’ the content search of files’ …

[sezamoracl (szmoracl)]

At the same path.

Tracker info shows both files are indexed, but nautilus only search ’ for content inside the file ’ in the .txt file:

.txt file

.sh file

My question is: this is a nautilus setting or it is a not implemented yet tool.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Best Regards.

[antoniof (António Fernandes)]

Hi.

Programming code is not indexed. That’s why script and source files do not have their content matched while searching.

This is intentional. Our indexing/searching components are optimized for natural language text in documents, not programming code. We would be wasting system resources and still do a poor job. There are plenty of IDEs and source-code indexing tools already, which are better at this job than our content search would ever be.