A spotlight-like search that searches the *contents* of files?

[mrpasini]

@Lloydi

I have a number of searches that I use in KM that interrogate content of a text file. By that I mean as I type it reads from a single text file and then displays any lines that match. I would like to have something similar, but instead of interrogating a single text file, it can read the contents of any text files within a specified directory.

I think you'll find Textcavator 2021 does that:

Textcavator 2021

Textcavator 2021 This version of Textcavator, which performs full-text searches on your system, introduces several new major features, several minor ones and a few under the hood to support them: [ss-960] The simple Google-like interface [ss-962] The full-featured interface Major New Features Filenames in report are now links that open in the default application using the included helper macro Textcavator's helper macro will attempt to load the default application's Find dialog with …