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Use Safari to find things more easily in text files
Authored by: dmmorse on Tue, May 6 2008 at 11:22AM PDT

Have you tried TextWrangler? It can find multiple occurrences in multiple files, and returns a list of every hit, which you can then click on to see more context immediately in the results window.

Use Safari to find things more easily in text files
Authored by: brett_x on Wed, May 7 2008 at 11:32AM PDT

Yes, I do use TW as well (because it is more powerful, with customizations), but sometimes the Safari UI is just cleaner and more to the point.