I''ve put some modified versions of Stuart Rackham''s Ferret Helper up at http://www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/ruby/#ff.rb My mods are to improve the number of file types searched, and to ease the configuration a little. I''ve got this to do what I need it to do so far, and don''t know if I will add further mods or not. At present I have other pressures, so it will be a while before I look into perfecting this further. That web server is only in existence under sufferance, so the link may vanish (possibly after Christmas) but in the hope that this is of use to someone... Hugh