[Smircle]

OK, I confess: ever since sherlock came with the integrated internet search, I had a love affair with it. It was one of the coolest tools I had ever seen, practical, fast, just great.

This is over now. I just dragged its icon from the Dock and let it go up in smoke. Sherlock in X is just crappy. It is awfully slow, hogs the CPU (how did they do it in X?), it does not search the hidden unix-directories (as a programmer, I need to search /usr/include/) and the internet search is pathetic at best (what is "best site first"? or "direct hit"? - Search engines, long forgotten). It does not even feature a google search by default, so if I want to find stuff in the internet, I rather use Opera lately. Local searches? Locator. 10x faster - at least.

Bye bye sherlock - I used it to convert people from the dark side because it was one damn good working app not found on windows.

[Sharky K.]

Yes but Locator only looks in the locate database, not "live"

I tried to convince the creator of Locator to add an extra feature (3 tabs) so people could delete Sherlock or maybe an extra google tab?? But it didn't worked he said that people use Sherlock for that.

(I don't, you don't so.... )

Try EasyFind (listed on versiontracker)

[petej]

The Project Builder has nice search facilities for searching include files.

[velocitychannel]

I used to use version 1 of Sherlock all the time. Then when they came out with version 2 and that god awful interface I trashed it. I don't think I ever used the OSX version. In fact, it was the first thing I deleted from the Dock.

Apple needs to do some serious work on Sherlock because it could be very useful. I am just not going to use such a clunky app to find a few files when I can use grep in the terminal.