Depeche View loads all text files from a folder, showing all text within a single window. This allows realtime research in huge amounts of ASCII text, typicall source code of Open Source projects.

Depeche View Realtime Source Code Analysis

Example: browsing a 40000 files Open Source project.        

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.