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Create C++ project (f.e. get the sample one 'helloapp') Invoke popup menu for the project in project view and choose "Find' type i in string to find, choose OK. No matches found. Neither "Find text" nor "Find object" work.
There were a lot of complains from those who participated in blitz and bug-a-thon about lack of this feature. This is a big usability issue.
*** Issue 84471 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Fixed. Find works as expected by seraching files in the project by recursively going down into sub folders from the folder the search is initiated rom. Find In Projects has some limitations though with C/C++ projects because of the nature of these projects. C/C++ projects don't have source roots whic the Find In Projects action expects. This means searching a C/C++ project using Find In Projects will not look outside the project and it will search all files underneath project root. See IZ 64392. NetBeans' Replace action is limited to one source files and don't go across several files or a project. What we need is a simple refactor feature that can replace Replace.