Custom extensions for "search archives" option

[Robert Borkowski]

Hi,

Many file formats are internally using zip or cab compression but use different file extensions than known archives (most interesting for me are MS Office XML-based documents). On the other hand, an easy way to do a full-text search is to inspect XML content of these files.
Currently, I often do it by searching for all *.docx;*.pptx, etc., rename them to include .zip extension and then run a second search over these files with "Find text" and "Search archives" option on. As you see, this process is a little bit complicated.
It would be very helpful if "Search archives" included a list of custom extensions (e.g., docx,pptx,xlsx) to attempt searching as archives. Do you think adding such option is feasible?

Thanks,
Robert

[Hacker]

Hi,
wincmd.ini
[Configuration]
SearchInFiles= Here you can specify additional archive types in which you want to search with the Search function. Example: SearchInFiles=*.EXE *.JAR

See Help, section 4.b)

HTH
Roman

[Robert Borkowski]

Roman, thank you. It seems like I missed this option. It solves the problem in principle, but the option is pretty is hidden and, if I'm right, requires restart of TC every time you want to change the ini content.
Let me then suggest that the SearchInFiles list could be added to the Search dialog, right next to "Search archives (all except for UC2)" checkbox. This way the list could be easily edited as neded directly in the GUI, and its existence would be obvious.

[Dalai]

If it's only about Office files (or similar ZIP archives containing XML files), you could just enable the "Office xml (docx, xlsx, odt etc)+EPUB" option after enabling "Find text". No need to search in archives, unless you need to find something very specific.

Regards
Dalai

[Robert Borkowski]

Dalai, another brilliant reply, thank you. Somehow I have never noticed this option. I rest my case. I guess this thread can be moved to a more appropriate section on the forum

[white]

Moderator message from: white » 2022-12-01, 11:26 UTC

Moved to English forum.