Windows Search for Emacs

Access Windows Search from Emacs.

Install

1. Put winsearch.el into your load path.

   adoquery.exe is a simple ADO access wrapper. Included in this repository, but you can also build your own. (see:https://github.com/misohena/adoquery) (adoquery.exe is no longer needed, powershell is needed instead)

2. Put (require 'winsearch) into your init.el

If you use ivy/counsel, you can use counsel-winsearch defined in winsearch-counsel.el.

Usage

Type M-x winsearch.

The result is displayed like grep.

Query Format

You can specify multiple of the following patterns:

• word
• “word word”
• file:<name>
• ext:<extension>
• title:<name>
• author:<name>
• contents:<text>
• size:<op><digits> ( <op> is one of < <= = > >= != )
• date:<op><YYYY-MM-DD> ( <op> is one of < <= = > >= )
• date:<YYYY-MM-DD>..<YYYY-MM-DD>
• date:today

Example Queries

Search from filepath or filename or contents.

• hello
• apple orange banana
• “hello world”
• CreateWindow

From contents.

• contents:hello\ world

From title.

• title:hello

From filename or file.

• filename:main.cpp
• file:hello.cpp

By author.

• author:misohena
• author:Jhon\ Smith

By file extension.

• ext:mp3
• ext:.mp3
• fileext:mp3

By kind.

• kind:folder
• kind:music
• kind:picture
• kind:video
• kind:playlist
• kind:program
• kind:link

(see: System.Kind | Microsoft Docs )

By size.

• size:>=1000000000
• size:<100000

By date.

• date:today
• date:2018-12-20
• date:2018-12
• date:2018
• date:=2018-12-20
• date:2018-12-1..2019-1-3
• date:2018-12..today
• date:>=2010 date:<2011

For Ivy/Consel

winsearch-counsel.el defines `consel-winsearch’ command.

For consult.el

winsearch-consult.el defines `consult-winsearch’ command.