stefankueng/grepWin

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A powerful and fast search tool using regular expressions

Stars: 2.1k
Forks: 223
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 47
Avg merge: 1d 15h
Merged PRs (30d): 7

Dominant language: C++
License: GPL-3.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 19, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue help wanted

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47 open issues indexed

[FEATURE]: replace on selected files only, not re-search whole folders and sub agian Open

enhancement good first issue help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

stefankueng/grepWin#611 · Opened Sep 5, 2026
[FEATURE]: Highlight capture groups in matches and show their index Open

enhancement good first issue help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

stefankueng/grepWin#609 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 1, 2026
[FEATURE]: Use monospaced font for Regex and replacment editing Open

enhancement good first issue help wanted

stefankueng/grepWin#608 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 1, 2026
[QUESTION]: This Regex doesn't work Open

question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

stefankueng/grepWin#603 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
[FEATURE]: shortcut buttons for quick access to searches within specific directories and for specific file types Open

enhancement good first issue help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

stefankueng/grepWin#600 · Opened Jul 18, 2026
[FEATURE]: Search only the first xkb per file Open

enhancement good first issue help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

stefankueng/grepWin#599 · Opened Jul 1, 2026
[Feautre request] sort result by column "Line" Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

stefankueng/grepWin#578 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 9, 2026
REQUEST: input gadgets should use recent descending order instead of alphabetical Open

duplicate

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

stefankueng/grepWin#574 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 26, 2026
Search completely breaks - file skipped every time Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

stefankueng/grepWin#571 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 16, 2025
grepWin setting -> editor: add an enable/disable option Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

stefankueng/grepWin#568 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 8, 2025
search and replace fials to work in huge files Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

stefankueng/grepWin#567 · 6 comments · Opened Nov 4, 2025
[Suggest] "Date" column(s) added to "Content" view Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

stefankueng/grepWin#556 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 24, 2025
Cleanup and resize UI elements Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

stefankueng/grepWin#554 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 4, 2025
Better content preview Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

stefankueng/grepWin#552 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 2, 2025
Allow search on time as well as date Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

stefankueng/grepWin#544 · Opened Jun 9, 2025
relation to grepWin.com Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

stefankueng/grepWin#530 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 15, 2025
Add (sortable) columns for modification date and size in Content view Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

stefankueng/grepWin#529 · Opened Dec 27, 2024
double-clicking search results to open editor is not working on my machine Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

stefankueng/grepWin#528 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 24, 2024
Improve Files view to allow content-per-file Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

stefankueng/grepWin#469 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 4, 2024
Memory leak related crash? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

stefankueng/grepWin#468 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 31, 2024
Configuration file with multiple replacements Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

stefankueng/grepWin#452 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 12, 2024
Option to remove grepWin context menu integration Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

stefankueng/grepWin#442 · 9 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 30, 2023
Feature request: remember sorting by date modified Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

stefankueng/grepWin#429 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 27, 2023
Replace Doesn't Honor Read Only Flag Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

stefankueng/grepWin#382 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 24, 2023
not easy to use grepWin Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

stefankueng/grepWin#380 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 17, 2023
Find this but not that (search for a page that has a string, Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

stefankueng/grepWin#379 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 15, 2023
Make sort order for all edit-boxes drop-down selection/history lists - by date/history Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

stefankueng/grepWin#348 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 15, 2022
Read file list for replacements Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

stefankueng/grepWin#343 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 24, 2022
Shell Preview Pane? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

stefankueng/grepWin#331 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 23, 2022
No content are displayed Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

stefankueng/grepWin#302 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 6, 2022
Text is empty while searching large (>2Gb) files Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

stefankueng/grepWin#300 · 13 comments · Opened Jan 5, 2022
Feature request: Take patterns from file Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

stefankueng/grepWin#294 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 7, 2021
Look into compressed office documents (xlsx, docx, odt, ods, pdf, xml, office) Open

wontfix

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

stefankueng/grepWin#290 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Nov 18, 2021
Can there be a back button for going to the previously searched text Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

stefankueng/grepWin#285 · 12 comments · Opened Oct 9, 2021
Can you add a feature to change file names? Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

stefankueng/grepWin#282 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 21, 2021
[feature request] Remember location of search results scrolled-to position Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

stefankueng/grepWin#281 · Opened Aug 5, 2021
Performance opportunity when searched file name is exact Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

stefankueng/grepWin#274 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 15, 2021
Re-order result columns Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

stefankueng/grepWin#269 · Opened Jun 30, 2021
Roll back for the Search and Replace Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

stefankueng/grepWin#259 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 28, 2021
Searching with GrepWin on a virtual Windows 2019 has been completely locking up the entire computer Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

stefankueng/grepWin#226 · 9 comments · Opened Feb 17, 2021
Feature request: Allowing showing additional context lines before/after match Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

stefankueng/grepWin#200 · 2 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Sep 28, 2020
Exclude folders Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

stefankueng/grepWin#138 · 2 comments · Opened May 2, 2020
Request: sort by column "Text" in Content results Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

stefankueng/grepWin#113 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 18, 2019
Execute multiple presets Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

stefankueng/grepWin#111 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 3, 2019
Replace all / Multiple replacement sequences at a time Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

stefankueng/grepWin#92 · 19 comments · Opened May 16, 2019
Feature request: Save column width resizing Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

stefankueng/grepWin#80 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 25, 2019
Exclude Dir Regex / Include Dirs Filter Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

stefankueng/grepWin#52 · 1 comment · 6 reactions · Opened Oct 25, 2018

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