Depeche View loads all text files from a directory tree, showing all contents within a single window. This allows realtime search in huge amounts of ASCII text, like source code of Open Source projects, CSV data, or plain text documentation.

Depeche View Realtime Text Search

Example: browsing a folder with 1000 text files.        

Search words as you type, or by clicking on them. Fly through search results by the turn of your mousewheel. Copy text, and create bookmarks with the same ease. If you have to read through many small ASCII text files, e.g. source code, this tool allows text analysis at extreme speeds.

For example, to search a word, forget about opening a dialogue, setting options, clicking through results lists to open one result file after another. No, just type the word - and land within the first matching line in the first matching file, instantly. Then, if you see another word of interest, don't even type it - click on it! And again, you will land at the first match for this word, instantly, no matter in what file.

Depeche View is a Windows tools, but also runs on i386 Linux systems having WINE installed (type wine dview -linux there). Depeche View Base is free for private use. Depeche View Extended Edition can also view .zip .jar .tar.gz and tar.bz2 contents directly. Fully portable executable, runs without installation.

The download is available here.