Blitz Search is a free, open-source tool that helps you search for keywords within files and directories across multiple projects and databases. It's designed for developers and integrates with popular editors.
Features
GitHub Integration
Blitz Search is available on GitHub, and it's 100% free and open source. You can view the source code and contribute to its development.
Code Snippet Search
Allows users to quickly search, find, and utilize code snippets within their IDE.
Syntax Highlighting
Displays search results with syntax highlighting for easier readability and understanding.
Forward and Backward Navigation
Enables users to navigate forward and backward within search results, providing a seamless search experience.
Clickable Search Results
Allows users to click on results to jump directly to the relevant code sections.
Solution Scoping in Visual Studio
Allows users to search in Opened, Active, or other files. This helps users to quickly locate files they are working on.
Visual Studio Preview Mode
Enables a preview mode in Visual Studio that lets users open selected lines in preview.
Dropdown Editor Selector
Provides a dropdown selector for all editors to facilitate quick switching between different workspaces or files.
Visual Studio Code Quick Selection
Updates enable a quick selection of the workspace being viewed in Visual Studio Code.
Blitz Configure Theme for VS Code
A new theme that matches the Blitz Search aesthetic with VS Code, also incorporating preview mode.
Sublime Text Workspace Selection
Allows users to select the Sublime Text workspace or window currently in use, enhancing navigation.
New Editors - Cursor, AI, Windsurf
These are Visual Studio Code derived editors being developed for additional ease of use.
Feature Gap Management
Discusses the gap between the free and premium versions of Blitz Search. Addresses the challenge of making the free version appealing while sufficiently justifying the premium version.
Product Hunt Release
Blitz Search was released on Product Hunt, which resulted in good feedback and increased visibility.
Growth Metrics
Mentions growth in distribution channels with figures such as a number of VSCode installations, Zshbrc total visits, and social media followers on platforms like X and TikTok.
Built-in Text Editor
Working on a built-in text editor feature for Blitz Search that allows a preview. This should facilitate more beneficial open-source contributions.
Control-Shift-F
The development of a custom function similar to the find-in-files feature of editors for better productivity.
Being Social
Efforts to improve social media presence and engagement with updates on development progress.
Entrian Search and FastFind Visual Studio Plugins
Integration and use of Entrian Search and PureDev software as inspiration to improve user experience and efficiency in Blitz Search.
Regular Expression Search
Allows users to conduct searches using regular expressions to find matches within text.
Context in Results
Displays search results with context, such as by space or indentation, to help users understand where the search term appears.
Results Style Customizations
Enables users to choose whether to display line numbers and customize colors, offering a tailor-fitted search experience.
Control over Font / Scale
Gives users the ability to control the font size and scale when viewing search results.
Select more than Dark Themes
Offers theme options beyond just dark themes for the search interface.
Image Search Mode
Displays search results in a grid arrangement, supporting metadata search.
Extracted Binary Page Results
Provides search results in various formats (search in PDF, docx, etc.) with low resource usage to efficiently handle documents.
Tagged Expressions
Allows users to tag expressions within searches to show content more efficiently, such as what function or section a result belongs to.
Private/Open to Actual Editor
Grants API access for automation, such as building the results into an IDE.
Dynamic Go Down
Offers capability to dynamically adjust search scopes and contexts based on user needs, like shifting from one project scope to another.
Install Package Control
Opens the command palette, searches for, and installs a package control in Sublime Text.
BlitzSearch Integration
Allows search under the caret or selected text in Sublime Text using the Blitz Search tool, bringing the search results to the front.
Custom Key Binding
Provides instructions to bind a custom keyboard shortcut to execute 'Blitz Search This' for faster access.
JetBrains Integration
Blitz Search integrates with JetBrains IDEs, allowing users to perform searches more effectively within these environments.
Customizable Commands
Users can configure the commands for Blitz Search to match their preferences, making the search experience more personalized.
Hotkey Functionality
Blitz Search supports hotkey functionality where pressing a hotkey with the caret on a word performs a whole word search, and with a selection, it performs a substring search.
Editor Configuration
Allows configuration of the core editor to be used with Blitz Search, letting users define which editor opens results.
Quick Search
Offers rapid searching capabilities to improve user productivity.
Search Customization
Allows users to tailor their search experience with different options and filters.
Integration with IDEs
Seamlessly integrates with major Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) for enhanced functionality.
Blitz Search Integration
Allows integration of Blitz Search as a plugin in Notepad++. Enables users to perform fast and efficient searches within large folders of files without heavy IDE involvement.
Open with Notepad++
Blitz Search allows users to open files directly in Notepad++.
Plugin Management
The plugin can be installed and configured via the Plugins Admin page in Notepad++ for easy management.
Goto Editor Configuration
Configure VS Code as the default editor in Blitz Search by selecting it from the presets.
Install BlitzSearch Extension
Install the BlitzSearch extension from the VS Code Marketplace by searching for 'BlitzSearch'.
Command Pallete Integration
Access Blitz Search commands prefixed with 'Blitz' using the command palette in VS Code.
Keyboard Shortcut Configuration
Set up a custom hotkey in VS Code to quickly activate Blitz Search for highlighted text or the word under the caret.
Whole Word Match
If no selection is made, Blitz Search defaults to search for the whole word under the caret.
Theme Configuration
Apply the current VS Code theme to Blitz Search using the 'Blitz Configure Theme' command.
Wildcard Search Support
Allows users to include wildcard and regex expressions to search for source code patterns. Enhances standard search capabilities in IDEs.
Automated Detection of File Types
Automatically classifies files based on extensions and content to optimize search parameters, reducing noise from irrelevant files.
Flexibility with Extended Types
Introduces flexibility in handling new types of expressions or files that developers might encounter, adaptable to various programming environments.