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I would like to search across projects for variable usages, or at least for strings. I've got IndexYourFiles which works well for text searches, but I have to re-index every now and then and would like an integrated solution.
Is there any way that I can search across projects in IntelliJ IDEA? So far I have only been able to search within the currently-open project. I'm guessing IntelliJ can't do this natively; are there any plug-ins out there to support this?
Thanks.
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Search everywhereFrom the main menu, select Navigate | Search Everywhere or press Shift twice to open the search window. By default, IntelliJ IDEA displays the list of recent files.
Press Ctrl+Alt+S to open the IDE settings and select Build, Execution, Deployment | Package Search.
To configure project settings, select IntelliJ IDEA | Preferences on macOS or File | Settings on Windows and Linux from the main menu. Alternatively, you can press Ctrl+Alt+S to show the IDE settings. icon. Other settings are global and apply to all existing projects.
As lena said, the following should fix it for you: Click File -> Invalidate Caches / Restart.. Click the button "Invalidate and Restart" After restart, try run the search again.
IntelliJ is project based so you can only search within the open project using Ctrl + Shift + F(Windows) or Cmd + Shift + F(Mac).
When I need to search across a set of projects I use Agent Ransack
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IntelliJ 13 (at least) has "Edit/Find/Find in Path...".
It has the Scope option which can be set to a directory, so if all projects are in the same directory (e.g. IdeaProjects) then it will search all projects.
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