quick_search/config_example.toml

# QuickSearch configuration reference.
#
# The live config is auto-created at ~/.config/quicksearch/config.toml
# (Windows: %APPDATA%\quicksearch\config.toml). A config.toml placed next
# to the quicksearch binary overrides it entirely (portable mode).
# Relative paths resolve against the directory containing the config
# file, so a portable folder can be moved wholesale.
#
# Every key is optional; missing keys take the defaults shown here.

[paths]
# One or more directory roots to index. Walked in order; duplicate and
# nested roots are de-duplicated automatically. `~` expands to home.
# Adding a folder reindexes to pick it up; removing one deletes its entries
# and leaves the rest of the index alone. Order and spelling do not matter:
# "~/docs", "/home/you/docs" and "/home/you/docs/" are one folder.
indexing_paths = ["~"]
# SQLite index location. Default: ~/.local/share/quicksearch/index.sqlite
# On Windows the default is %LOCALAPPDATA%\quicksearch\index.sqlite. Write
# Windows paths as TOML *literal* strings (single quotes) so the
# backslashes need no escaping, and keep the index out of a roaming
# profile — it is far too large to synchronise:
#   database_path = 'C:\Users\you\AppData\Local\quicksearch\index.sqlite'
database_path = "~/.local/share/quicksearch/index.sqlite"

[indexing]
# The indexing mode. true = automatic: filesystem watchers apply changes a
# couple of seconds after they happen — the queue waits for a burst to settle
# so that deleting a folder costs one operation instead of one per file — and
# a full reindex runs every reindex_interval_minutes (the watcher catches
# changes as they happen, so that interval only needs to be
# often enough to cover whatever the watcher missed). false = manual:
# nothing is indexed until you ask for it. The Stop and Return to Automatic
# buttons on the Manage Index tab write this value, so the mode you left the
# app in is the mode it starts in.
auto_index = true
reindex_interval_minutes = 60
# Follow symbolic links during directory walks. Applies to links pointing at
# files as well as at directories: with this off a symlink is not resolved at
# all, so its target is never indexed — which matters because a target can
# live outside every folder listed above. A resolved target is stored under
# its own real path, not the link's. Turning this off removes the entries
# that are no longer in scope; turning it on reindexes to find them.
follow_symlinks = false
# Index hidden files and directories. That means dot-files everywhere, and
# additionally anything carrying the Hidden attribute on Windows (AppData,
# $RECYCLE.BIN, System Volume Information, pagefile.sys ...). The System
# attribute on its own does not count: Windows honours the desktop.ini inside
# a folder only if the folder carries System or Read-only, so cloud sync roots
# (ownCloud, Nextcloud, OneDrive, Google Drive) and any folder given a custom
# icon carry it purely to get that icon, and are indexed normally.
# Turning this off removes the hidden entries already indexed.
include_hidden = false
# Empty = extract text from every supported format. Non-empty = content
# indexing only for these extensions; other files are still listed for
# filename search. Entries are case-insensitive, leading dot optional.
# The reserved entry "(none)" whitelists files that have no extension at
# all (Makefile, README, .bashrc); a non-empty list without it skips them.
# Inside an entry, "#" starts a comment that runs to its end, so entries may
# be annotated or commented out:
#   content_extensions = ["txt", "md # docs", "# pdf — too slow", "(none)"]
# Narrowing this drops the stored text of the files it now excludes, leaving
# them findable by name; widening it reindexes to extract the ones it now
# allows. Order, case, a leading dot and comments make no difference.
content_extensions = []
# Excluded from the index entirely. A pattern without a separator matches
# any single path component (so ".git" prunes whole subtrees); patterns
# containing one match full paths, including a bare drive root like 'D:\'.
# Glob syntax (*, ?, [..]). A name pattern must match the whole name:
# ".jpg" only matches something named exactly ".jpg" — ignoring an
# extension needs the wildcard, "*.jpg". Matching is case-insensitive on
# Windows and macOS, case-sensitive elsewhere, following the filesystem.
#
# The Windows defaults add: "$RECYCLE.BIN", "System Volume Information",
# "pagefile.sys", "hiberfil.sys", "swapfile.sys", "Thumbs.db",
# "desktop.ini".
ignore_patterns = [".git", "node_modules", "*.tmp", ".venv", "venv"]

# Worth adding by hand if you index a whole Windows drive rather than just
# your profile. Neither is excluded by default, because the default root
# is your profile and a bare "Windows" pattern would also match a folder
# of your own with that name:
#   'C:\Windows'        — system files, nothing you would search for
#   'C:\Windows\WinSxS' — a hardlink farm that floods the Duplicates tab

# Walker threads per root, keyed by the exact root string from
# indexing_paths. Absent or 0 = auto (4 on local storage, 16 on network
# mounts, detected per root). Applies at the start of the next run.
# root_workers = { "/media/share" = 24 }

[processing]
# Bytes read from the start of each file for its content hash, which is
# `sha256(size || first hash_length bytes)` and backs duplicate detection.
# Only the head is read: seeking to the end for a second block costs an
# extra round trip per file on network shares. The same bytes are also the
# detection window that decides what a file is: magic-byte matching, and
# the text sniff that lets extensionless or unknown-extension files be
# indexed as text — so shrinking this judges files on less evidence.
#
# Known limitation: files of identical size whose heads match will be
# reported as duplicates. In practice that means pre-allocated VM disk
# images: a fixed-size VHD stores its unique footer at the end of the
# file, and a freshly pre-allocated raw/qcow2/VMDK image is all zeros at
# the head until it is partitioned.
hash_length = 8192
# Maximum extracted text stored per file (bytes).
maximum_text_size = 262144
# Files larger than this skip text extraction entirely (bytes).
maximum_text_file_size = 2097152
# Files per batch during walks / inserts / extraction.
batch_size = 500
# Writer time one indexing root's turn may take before the round-robin moves
# on (milliseconds). The time half of the knob whose row half is batch_size:
# it bounds how long one root can hold up the others, so a root extracting
# large documents cannot leave another root's walkers parked behind it. 0
# gives each turn one batch_size quantum and no more.
writer_turn_slice_ms = 100
# Files per transaction for incremental FTS updates.
fts_update_batch_size = 1000
# How large the write-ahead log (index.sqlite-wal) may grow during an
# indexing run before the indexer forces a checkpoint (bytes). SQLite copies
# the log into the index on its own but can only reset it when no reader is
# mid-query, and a run keeps one reader per root busy throughout — so
# unattended the log grows for the whole run and can end up larger than the
# index. Set to 0 to disable forced checkpoints; any other value below
# 16777216 is raised to it.
maximum_wal_size = 536870912
# FTS5 tokenizer: 'trigram' (substring matching, the default; gets
# remove_diacritics 1 appended), 'unicode61', 'porter', or a full FTS5
# option string. See https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html#tokenizers
tokenize = "trigram"
# Store extracted text (zstd-compressed) alongside the FTS index. Off:
# the index shrinks to roughly stock-Baloo size, but search loses snippet
# previews, occurrence ranking, case verification, and fuzzy full-text.
# Turning it off discards the stored text immediately; turning it on
# re-extracts, because the text of files already indexed was never kept.
store_text_for_snippets = true

[security]
# Encrypt the index with a password (SQLCipher). The password is asked
# for every time QuickSearch starts; turning this on or off deletes and
# rebuilds the index. Change it from the GUI (Settings → Security), not by
# hand: enabling protection also generates the KDF salt below.
password_protected = false
# Store the derived key in the OS keychain (Secret Service / KWallet on
# Linux, Credential Manager on Windows) and skip the startup prompt.
use_keychain = false
# When a password is set, the app writes a `salt` value here (32 hex
# digits). It is not a secret, but it is unique to your index: do not
# create or edit it by hand, and keep it if you copy this file — the
# password only unlocks the index together with its salt.

[ui]
# Zoom factor for the whole GUI: fonts, spacing, and widgets scale
# together (0.5 – 2.5). Ctrl +/- and Ctrl 0 adjust it temporarily at
# runtime; this value is the persistent baseline.
scale = 1.1
# Written by QuickSearch, not by you: the folders that have already shown
# the "more subfolders than the watcher can follow" warning, so restarting
# does not repeat it. Keyed by folder rather than a single flag so that
# adding a folder warns again — the trade-off changed — and pruned to the
# current folder list whenever it is applied. Deleting it just means the
# warnings come back once each.
watch_cap_warned_roots = []
# System-wide shortcut that raises QuickSearch, switches to the Search tab
# and selects whatever is in the search box, from anywhere. Modifiers are
# Ctrl, Alt and Shift, joined to one key with "+". Leave it empty ("") for
# no shortcut. On Wayland this is only a preference: the shortcut is
# registered with your desktop, which may assign a different key and lets
# you change it in its own keyboard settings.
search_hotkey = "Ctrl+Shift+F"
# 'dark' or 'light'. Applied as soon as it is changed on the Settings
# tab. Your desktop's own light/dark setting is not consulted: reading
# it would mean connecting to your session's message bus and subscribing to
# your settings, which is more than a search tool should ask for. Anything
# other than 'light' is dark.
color_scheme = "dark"
# Written by QuickSearch, not by you: whether the short introduction shown
# on a brand-new installation has been dismissed. Absent means this config
# predates that introduction - an installation that upgraded into this
# version, which is not offered it. The Help tab can show it again at any
# time.
tutorial_seen = false

[search]
# Start with the fuzzy passes enabled.
fuzzy_default = false
# Ceiling on the fuzzy stages' typo budget. The allowance grows with the
# search term, one edit per three characters, up to this value, so 2
# means "1 edit for 3-5 character terms, 2 for anything longer". 0 turns
# the fuzzy stages off. Above 3 is allowed but not recommended: matches
# become dominated by coincidence and every fuzzy pass slows down.
fuzzy_max_edits = 2
# Hard cap on results per search (the GUI's scroll list length).
display_limit = 1000
# Results per streamed batch (latency/overhead knob, not a page size).
results_per_page = 100
# How long the GUI waits after the last keystroke before searching (ms).
debounce_ms = 150
# Watch the search results on screen and show renames, deletions and
# content changes as they happen. Only the rows actually visible are
# watched, and editing the query drops the watches. What a row shows is
# read from the file itself, so this works whether or not indexing is
# running — and the files it reads are then brought up to date in the
# index, so what is stored cannot drift from what you are looking at.
# Rows are also checked against the disk as they come on screen, which is
# all you get over a network share, where the system does not report other
# machines' writes. Nothing is ever added, removed or re-ordered while you
# read.
live_results = true

# Which columns the Search tab shows. The same choices are on the
# right-click menu of any column header, and in Settings → Search; both
# write here immediately, without an Apply.
#
# There is deliberately no 'path' key: the path is always shown, because
# it is the only column that identifies a result on its own.
[search.columns]
name = true
# The excerpt of a file's contents around the match. Rows that matched on
# their name or path show a dash there instead.
content_match = true
# Off by default: the width these take is usually better spent on the path
# and the matched text. Turning one on also makes it available to sort by;
# sorting by a column that is hidden falls back to sorting by rank.
size = false
modified = false
rank = true