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(R)?ex vs Recoll

A side-by-side look at (R)?ex and Recoll. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

(R)?ex

(R)?ex

Development

(R)?ex is a powerful text editor for Windows that combines an efficient code editor with an easy-to-use formatting word processor. It has customizable syntax highlighting and code folding, regex support, macros and plugins.

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Recoll

Recoll

Office & Productivity

Recoll is an open source desktop search application for Linux and Windows. It indexes files and documents to allow fast searching from your computer. Recoll has advanced search features like boolean operators, wildcards, and regex.

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