commonloon102/regexfilesearcher

Cross-platform regex file searching tool in .NET 5

regexfilesearcher's Issues

Add an option for maximum file size limit

Regex operates on text, not binaries. As such, the current implementation simply reads the entire file into one string object.
While this approach avoids issues arising from buffered reading (such as a potential regex match getting cut-off), it poses a problem when a large file is encountered during file search.
This could be solved by allowing the user to specify a maximum file size, beyond which a file would be ignored.
A sane default, such as 5 MB would be preferred. See discussion.

Update README.md to include Mac instructions

Project contains RegexFileSearcher.Mac files, but README.md doesn't include instructions for Running and Compiling on a Mac.

Using the program associated with the selected file(s) should be the default behaviour

Currently, the user has to manually pick an executable to launch the selected file(s).
This can be improved upon by applying the following when no editor is specified:

• Use xdg-open on Linux.
• Use open on macOS.
• Use start on Windows.

All of the above are the standard ways of opening files using the associated program.

README.md: Debug build on Mac instead of release

The building process should create a binary what is built in release mode.
The README.md should be updated to publish the app on Mac instead of building it in debug mode.
Is it possible to build it on Mac in a similar way what we have now for Linux?

Something like this should work:

dotnet publish RegexFileSearcher/RegexFileSearcher.Mac/RegexFileSearcher.Mac.csproj --configuration Release --output publish --self-contained false --runtime osx-x64 --framework netcoreapp3.1

Invalid regex

Warn the user that the regex is invalid instead of crashing the app.

Search in compressed files

Add option to search in compressed files.
In this case, the search would take place in compressed files (e.g.: zip, gz, bz2, etc.; whatever we would support) too.
Inside the compressed file, only those files would be searched where the filename would match the pattern provided by the user (if any).

Regex timeout controls improvements

This issue tracks changes that fix visibility issues of regex timeout settings.
In particular, the following issues will be addressed:

• Misalignment of NumericStepper and labels.
• Timeout value getting cut-off on high DPI setting because it is measured in thousands of milliseconds.