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Jon Onstott picture Jon Onstott · Feb 8, 2011 · Viewed 53.4k times · Source

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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Rachel picture Rachel · Feb 28, 2011

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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