# Windows not searching contents of \*.jl files
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/windows-not-searching-contents-of-jl-files/84123
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** windows
**Created:** [July 12, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/windows-not-searching-contents-of-jl-files/84123 "2022-07-12T20:17:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@thompsonmj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/thompsonmj)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/windows-not-searching-contents-of-jl-files/84123/1 "2022-07-12T20:17:10Z")
Not sure if this is a Windows issue or what can be done, but I am using Windows Explorer to search for some old code. It isn’t searching the contents of my \*.jl files, but is returning results for contents of other file types.
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### Author:  [@mkitti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkitti)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 10:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/windows-not-searching-contents-of-jl-files/84123/2 "2022-07-12T22:44:47Z")
See [Add or Remove File Types from Search in Windows 10](https://winaero.com/add-remove-file-types-search-windows-10/)
- Control panel
- Indexing options
- Advanced
- “File Types” tab
- “Add new extension to list:”
- Type in `jl` and click Add
- Select `jl` and select “Index Properties and File Contents”
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### Author:  [@thompsonmj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/thompsonmj)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2022, 12:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/windows-not-searching-contents-of-jl-files/84123/3 "2022-07-13T00:49:04Z")
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@mthelm85](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mthelm85)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/windows-not-searching-contents-of-jl-files/84123/4 "2022-07-13T14:37:30Z")
FYI, I built a little command line tool last year to index all of the comments in my .jl files and then another that allows me to search them. It’s super fast and I’ve found it extremely helpful when needing to find code.
Here are the repos:
> **[GitHub - mthelm85/julia-comments-indexer](https://github.com/mthelm85/julia-comments-indexer)**
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> Contribute to mthelm85/julia-comments-indexer development by creating an account on GitHub.
> **[GitHub - mthelm85/julia-comments-searcher](https://github.com/mthelm85/julia-comments-searcher)**
>
> Contribute to mthelm85/julia-comments-searcher development by creating an account on GitHub.
They’re not set up right now for general use but it wouldn’t take much modification of the code to make it work on your system.
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### Author:  [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/windows-not-searching-contents-of-jl-files/84123/5 "2022-07-13T15:37:16Z")
Sublime Text has a fast and smart indexer. It works extremely well with projects. To find the definition of anything is a breeze. Windows search tends to be slow and the results hard to use.
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### Author:  [@thompsonmj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/thompsonmj)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/windows-not-searching-contents-of-jl-files/84123/6 "2022-07-13T15:40:56Z")
Thanks @mthelm85 and @PetrKryslUCSD, I’ll check both of these out.