Helm Windows Search

Introduction

Helm Windows Search is an interface for accessing Windows Desktop Search from Emacs-Helm.

Install

1. Put helm-windows-search.el and adoquery.exe into your load path.

   (adoquery.exe is a simple ADO access wrapper. see:https://github.com/misohena/adoquery)

2. Put the following code in your init.el file.

   (autoload 'helm-windows-search "helm-windows-search")
   (global-set-key (kbd "C-c h w") 'helm-windows-search)
       

If you want to use Windows Search instead of es.exe in helm-locate, follow these steps:

1. Put helm-locate-windows-search.el and adoquery.exe into your load path.
2. Put the following code in your init.el file.

   (autoload 'helm-locate-windows-search-setup "helm-locate-windows-search")
   (with-eval-after-load "helm-locate" (helm-locate-windows-search-setup))
       

Then helm-locate-init function is overwritten and locate command is emulated by Windows Search. In helm-locate, you can only use locate command format. (ex: -b \NAME)

If you want to completely replace helm-locate-1 with helm-windows-search-1, you can use the following code instead.

(with-eval-after-load "helm-locate"
  (fset 'helm-locate-1
        (lambda (&optional localdb init from-ff default)
          (require 'helm-windows-search)
          (helm-windows-search-1 init default)))

You can use helm-windows-search query. (ex: file:main date:today author:misohena )

Usage

M-x helm-windows-search or C-c h w

Example Queries

filepath or filename or contents

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

author

• author:misohena
• author:Jhon\ Smith

title

• title:hello

filename or file

• filename:main.cpp
• file:hello.cpp

file extension

• ext:mp3
• ext:.mp3
• fileext:mp3

kind

• kind:folder
• kind:music

(see: System.Kind | Microsoft Docs )

size

• size:>=1000000000
• size:<100000

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

contents

• contents:hello\ world