ychclone / blink

GUI of indexed grep in Windows and Linux. A source code indexing tool, near instant code search tool and navigation

Blink code search

GUI of indexed grep in Windows and Linux. A source code indexing tool, near instant code search tool and navigation. Good for small to medium size code base. It supports fuzzy matching, auto complete, and live grep for real time query. Manage different projects and switch for different projects Drag and drop of filenames to your favourite editor.

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Features

• Fast search using prebuilt index
• Fuzzy suggestion in autocomplete
• Live grep
• Drag and drop for filename to your favourite editor
• Switch between multiple projects
• Very small index size compared to trigram
• Replaces in files for searched symbol
• Cross platform

Download, Install

Windows and Linux binaries are available in

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/blink-code-search/files/

Source code is avaliable in

• https://github.com/ychclone/blink

Change Log

version [1.9.3]

• Support directory to exclude and file mask to exclude

version [1.9.2]

• can now use *.* as source file mask to process all text file. Binary files will be skipped.
• default source file mask set to *.*

Code search

File listing

Usage

1. Drop the folder (e.g. from file explorer, nautilus) into the window below project tab.

2. A new project dialog will appears. Type the file extensions that you want to index.

3. Right click on the project name
4. Click "Rebuild Symbol"
5. Double click the project name to make it the active project. Or right click and select "Load"

6. Start file filtering and code search on the file and symbol tab

Advanced Usage

For symbol queries, advanced options can be entered: There is no spacing in between e.g. /a10, /n3, /xinclude

• /a NumberOfLinesAfter
• /b NumberOfLinesBefore
• /n NumberOfLinesBeforeAndAFter
• /f FileNameToMatch
• /x PatternToExclude

In addition, regular expression can be entered for the queries: e.g. .*mainWindows, (_clicked|_Pressed) It will match all ("and" condition) if multiple symbols are entered for queries.

Configuration

The text editor when double clicking the filename in file tab could be set in configuration. The filename could be dropped to other editor. Option->Setting->Main->Default Editor

Tips

Display result lines before and after

In the text field for symbol, "/n3" could be used to display 3 lines before and after

Match for multiple symbol

Multiple symbols (and condition) could be input for symbol queries. e.g. Multiple match are input "CMainWindow", "_on" as queries.

Show multiple project

Regular expression could be used to filter the project name and source filename name. e.g. "Or" condition for project name using the pipe "|" regular expression.

Troubleshooting

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL; collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Sol: sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-dev

Qt version not match

sudo rm /usr/bin/qmake
sudo ln -s /home/ychclone/Qt5.14.2/5.14.2/gcc_64/bin/qmake /usr/bin/qmake

Segmentation fault (core dumped) when start

Please cp ./blink to build directory. Please make sure the following config files existed in build directory:

• blink.ini
• qtag.conf
• qt.conf
• record.xml

qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in ""

Error message: This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Sol:

export QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH=/home/ychclone/Qt5.14.2/5.14.2/gcc_64/plugins/platforms

blink's Issues

Cannot start

Windows 7, Blink 1.5.1

$ blink.exe