Lupa

Changed

• In lupa ui's names mode (Tab), wildcards work as you'd expect: *.md lists Markdown files and ?cro* matches names like AcroTrac.md. Alt+F switches to a regular expression when you need one.
• Typing *.md while searching file contents now suggests pressing Tab to search file names instead.

Fixed

• lupa ui no longer keeps showing the previous file in the preview after a pattern stops matching or becomes invalid.

Added

• lupa ui opens an interactive search in your terminal.
• Results update as you type, and a preview shows the lines around the selected match.
• Enter opens the match in your editor: VS Code by default, or set LUPA_EDITOR, e.g. notepad++ -n{line} {path}.
• Tab switches to searching file and folder names.
• Alt+F, Alt+C, Alt+W, Alt+R and Alt+G change literal text, case, whole words, folder and globs.
• F5 updates the index without leaving.
• The mouse works: click to select, double-click to open, scroll with the wheel.
• F1 lists every key.

Fixed

• CHANGES.txt in the download now lists every version's changes, newest first, not just the latest. Upgrading across several versions no longer hides what changed in between.

Changed

• lupa find -g "?cro*" now highlights just the part of the name the glob spells out (cro), not the whole name. *.cs highlights .cs.

Changed

• lupa find now colors its results like lupa search: paths in magenta and the matching part in bold red. With only -g (e.g. lupa find -g "?cro*"), the matching file or folder name is highlighted.

Changed

• Typing wildcards where a regular expression is expected (lupa find ?cro*, lupa search *TODO*) now gets a hint with what to type instead (-g "?cro*" or cro), not just the regex error.

Added

• lupa schedule keeps your index up to date in the background: it runs lupa update every 15 minutes (--every 30 to change it) while you're logged in, without a window and without admin rights. lupa schedule --off stops it, and lupa schedule --status shows how the last run went.
• lupa log shows what the background updates did. --errors shows only failed runs, and --path shows where the log file is.
• lupa status shows whether updates are scheduled and how the last one went.

Changed

• lupa install waits for a running lupa command (such as a background update) to finish instead of failing, and pauses the schedule while it replaces the files.
• lupa uninstall also removes the scheduled update.

Fixed

• lupa install could fail now and then with "Access … is denied" while making its backup, because antivirus or Windows Search was briefly reading the files it had just copied. It now retries for a moment.

Added

• lupa find <name> finds files and folders by name across everything you've added, including PDFs, images, Office documents and other files whose content isn't searchable. For example lupa find budget, lupa find -t d Taxes, or lupa find alone to list everything. -p matches the whole path instead of the name. Files your .gitignore excludes, node_modules and the like, and hidden files aren't listed.

Changed

• lupa status shows how many files are known by name only, and lupa add reports them as "by name only" instead of "skipped".
• The index format changed. Your first lupa update after upgrading upgrades it and records the names of files whose content isn't indexed. This takes as long as a full rescan, once.
• To go back to 0.1.x after this, delete %LOCALAPPDATA%\Lupa and add your folders again: older versions can't update the new index.

Added

• lupa search -c prints how many lines match in each file, and --count-matches prints how many matches each file has, as path:count. Same flags as ripgrep.
• To count matches in a single file: lupa search --count-matches PATTERN --root <file>.

Changed

• lupa update is much faster on drives without a change journal, such as Google Drive. It no longer re-reads files it already found to be binary or minified, unless they change. On a Google Drive folder, a no-change update went from about 16 seconds to under 1.5. The first update after upgrading still takes the old time once.
• Files that are never searchable text, such as PDFs, Office documents, images, audio and video, and archives, are now skipped by their extension without being opened. On a cloud drive, they're no longer downloaded just to be skipped.
• Google Drive shortcut files (.gdoc, .gsheet, .gslides, …) are no longer indexed. They only contain a document id; the documents themselves live online and can't be searched.

Added

• lupa remove <folder>... takes folders out of the index, for example ones you've deleted or no longer want searched. Your files on disk aren't touched.
• After removing a large part of the index, lupa remove compacts it, so the index file shrinks too.

Changed

• lupa install now backs up the version it replaces into %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Lupa\backups\<version>, and installs the README, release notes and license files along with lupa.exe.
• lupa install does nothing if that version is already installed.
• To go back to an earlier version, run lupa.exe install from its folder under backups.
• lupa uninstall also removes the backups.

Changed

• lupa add --help now says it takes one or more folders, with examples, including how to quote paths that contain spaces.
• After you add your first folder, a one-time tip shows how to add more folders at once.

Fixed

• "1 file" instead of "1 files" in lupa add and lupa roots.

Added

• First release.
• lupa add: index folders, respecting .gitignore and skipping build output, binaries, and minified files.
• lupa search: substring and regex search across everything you've added, with path:line:column:text or JSON Lines output.
• lupa update: pick up changes quickly through the Windows USN Journal, without administrator rights.
• lupa roots and lupa status: see what's indexed and how each drive is kept current.
• lupa install and lupa uninstall: set up Lupa for your user, no administrator rights needed.