Feature: Everything search integration

[yair100]

Value

The current search feature does the job but searches often take a long time especially if the items weren't indexed. We can add a lot of value if we integrate with an app like Everything Search. Alternatively, if we can find a way to bundle Everything with Files, we should find another way to improve search performance.

Steps to implement

• Integrate Everything Search with Files. The integration shouldn't require any extra steps on the users side (eg. installing Everything).

[mohrpw]

I agree with you, I'm using it like 5 years now. Great tool.
Here is a SDK Wrapper in Fluent.

https://github.com/Riboe/EverythingSharp

[yair100]

Does the wrapper require users to have Everything installed?

[heftymouse]

It does, since Everything's SDK operates through IPC with the running Everything instance

[RedIODev]

Why require to not need extra steps?
I mean don't get me wrong less steps is always better.
But in this case we are talking about the integration of an optional alternative search engine.
It would be way more flexible and easier to implement to just make a pair of radio buttons in the settings:
[x] System-Search
[ ] Everything-Search

where Everything-Search is grayed out if not running on the system and add a hyperlink to the voidtools website.
This would also enable the possibility to support multiple optional search engines when implementing this system in a modular way.
Of cause another alternative would be to bundle Everything. But for now ignoring legal stuff this would bloat Files for people who for some reason want to use the windows search and would be really fragile being directly dependent on some foreign search engine still running separately on the system but this time started by Files. A search indexer needs to be it's own programm since it needs to sun continuously in the background and can therefore never be directly integrated in files. Just like the current search is also hosted by windows also running in an separate program. (Assuming this is how the search works. Which I didn't check)
Another point for the soft/dynamic integration of Everything is that other software that uses the Everything Api can share the same Everything instance with Files. Not needing duplicate instances and installations.

[yair100]

It would be way more flexible and easier to implement to just make a pair of radio buttons in the settings:

Adding an integration can sometimes take as much effort as building the feature from scratch.

[RedIODev]

I currently don't have the time. But when this thread is still open in a few weeks (likely) I will try implementing it. I'm not familiar with the Files source but in C# it shouldn't be to difficult since there already is an c# api like mentioned by @Vulcanraven91

I agree with you, I'm using it like 5 years now. Great tool. Here is a SDK Wrapper in Fluent.

https://github.com/Riboe/EverythingSharp

I didn't look into it throughly but it seems most of the work is already done. Only thing needed is the ui integration and rewiring of the search box.