Find in path does not work at all

Hello,

I suppose "docker" directory surely contains some files with "granted" text inside, correct?

In the top right corner there's a filter button - could you check if it is set to "Anywhere" and not to "In comments" or "In string literals"?

I notice that the results returned by Find in Path aren't grouped by file now, pretty sure they used to be. Obviously, it's much better when they are ordered by order of file name and then by line within the file.

I am having the same problem

@all 

please try to disable .gitgnore plugin and Invalidate caches after that - would that help?

In fact, I came to this page when I noticed that Find (in Project) would only find whole words that matched the search term - so a search for "phpmailer" would not find any instances of "phpmailerNEW" in the code.

Disabling all extensions I wasn't actually using, which would have included disabling the .gitignore plugin, did restore the expected operation. Invalidating caches, by itself, made no difference.

So the .gitignore plugin might have been the cause of my own issue, which was not precisely the same as "not working at all" but could look exactly the same - if the reason you were seeing no results at all could be that all the partial matches were being ignored and there were no exact matches.

In my case it was because "Recursively" checkbox was not checked.

@Irfan Blackhawk

>I am tired of this .. Please fix it

Be a bit specific please. Fix what exactly?

Weird hex numbers inserted? Not an IDE issue -- https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-185799

@AndriyBazanov The same screen comes up every single time I invoke 'Find In Path' dialog.

>The same screen comes up every single time I invoke 'Find In Path' dialog.

With hex numbers? Not an IDE issue at all. Check comments in the aforementioned ticket for a solution.

It happens in all of JetBrains IDE's on my machine...

>It happens in all of JetBrains IDE's on my machine...

So..?

I do not want to sound rude or something .. but you with your limited information (the way how you respond) it's not clear if you have checked that link or not .. or perhaps you are even talking about different things now...

1) If you are talking about Hex numbers in Find in Path dialog -- it's NOT an IDE issue

2) Based on reports it happens on Mac OS and the reason for that is a 3rd party software: GPG or Open PGP.

3) Reason (global shortcut that is handled by GPG/Open PGP) and the solution on how to disable that is explained in the aforementioned ticket. In case if you having issues reading through the comments there, here they are:

• https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-185799#focus=streamItem-27-2778206-0-0
• https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-185799#focus=streamItem-27-3123737-0-0

If that does not apply to you (or you are talking about completely different thing), then please explain that in details/with pics, ideally in new thread (to not to mix different things here).

typing -> finding

copy or (block & ctrl+shift+F) -> Nothing to show

The horrible UI doesn't help. 

I had the same problem, it was caused by regex being enabled. You disable that by clicking a tiny blue sign somewere in a corner. 

I did not enable this myself ofcourse..

In case it helps anyone:

For me, the reason was that the IDE did not add the directory root after opening an existing project.
To do that manually, go to Settings > Directories and click on "+ Add Content Root", and then optionally mark your source directories.
After that, everything works as normal.

It's a bit weird that PHPStorm didn't do it automatically, but it also reported that the settings could not be loaded from some missing iml file, so maybe this is linked.

As Stann435 said, also in my case it was related with recursively option. Thanks Stann435.

Where is this "recursively" option?  

What version are you on? In the latest version it's toggled via this button: