I don't know this is off topic or not, I'm using general channels. Is there a solution for Search Anywhere in PhpStorm. I work with Laravel but when I use the feature I can't find the file even though it exists.
Looking at your screenshot: based on the fact that ALL files in the project tree have that sort of "dirty yellow" background color... it looks like ALL of your files are considered excluded / outside of the project for some reason.
Most likely a user error of some kind. E.g. you may have opened it from a different path (i.e. when symlink is involved), may have c=misconfigured it later somehow (marked folder as Excluded by mistake or whatnot) or maybe even some sort of config file corruption (pretty unlikely).
Anyway, please do this:
Close your project
Go to the project root folder and delete your .idea subfolder (that's where your project settings are stored).
If you have that project still visible in the IDE (Recent Projects on the Welcome screen) -- you may remove it there as well (to avoid any possible confusion).
Now create a new project in PhpStorm from scratch using existing files: just use "Open" and point to the folder with your project.
Please check filter option. If you are doing file search then click on Files tab.
In PhpStorm there is a function, when you re-create a file, it is renamed in the entire project. Neither can I find out if there is a function so that when transferring one folder to another.
For example:
in the /abc/def/ghi/ structure
you need to move /ghi/ directly under /abc/
and that in the files where the mention of /abc/def/ghi/ will became /abc/ghi/
The functional as in renaming interests. About the mass replacement through Ctrl + Shift + R I know, but then you must first move the folder, then look for files where something is wrong, but I want it to be more automated and do it all myself.
The answer is, it works just like this, I just installed the old version, updated it, everything works as I wanted out of the box, there's nothing to think about.
Was PhpStorm 7
Currently I'm having an issue where I cannot make any changes to some files in my project. When hitting the return or space bar key it will only select text and not create new lines or spaces respectively.
I'm fairly certain it has something to do with the VCS features but cannot seem to find any settings to correct the Read-Only issue I'm running into.
This issue did raise it head after installing the Dash plugin. Not sure if this is coincidental or related.
Thanks!
update: After further test it looks like some files go into a sort of preview mode. Return and Space bar keys will let you scan the file and hitting any other keys will wake up the edit function. Strange?
IdealVim caused this for me. Definitely plugin related.
I'm searching for a string and getting matches in a source folder, and a build folder (file in source gets copied to build during build).
I do not need the build folder result.
Vim has wildignore which helps filter out results.
Is there something similar in intelij?
Mark your build folder as excluded:
File > Project Structure > Modules > Sources > Mark as Excluded (red icon)
You can also just right click on your folder and select Mark Directory As > Excluded.
Excluded folders (shown as rootExcluded) are ones that IntelliJ IDEA "partially ignores". Very limited coding assistance is provided for files in excluded folders. Classes contained in excluded folders don't appear in code completion suggestion lists, references to such classes are shown in the editor as unresolved. When searching, IntelliJ IDEA doesn't look in excluded folders, etc.
Source
Note: See the answer by Nader Hadji Ghanbari for another approach using Scopes.
Short Answer
By defining a Scope when searching, you can include/exclude arbitrary files/folders from that scope.
Detailed Answer
One way to achieve your requirement (excluding files and folders from a search) is to define a custom scope. This is specifically useful because sometimes you just want to exclude a folder from your search and not from the whole project.
Follow these steps:
Edit -> Find -> Find in path or press Ctrl+Shift+F.
Choose Custom in the Scope section and then choose <unknown scope>
Now click on the + button to add a new local custom scope
Give the scope a name and save it.
Now you can include and exclude directories from this scope. You can first add everything by choosing the include recursively and then exclude one by one by choosing exclude or exclude recursively.
Note that you can even include or exclude libraries your project is dependent on.
When searching you can choose the effective scope by in Scope section in Find in Path dialog.
More info
You can check the JetBrains docs on Scopes for more info. Scopes can be used not only when searching but also in a bunch of other use cases in IntelliJ IDEA.
Patterns
You can use Patterns to define a scope which makes them even more powerful and future proof.
using patterns is another way to exclude files and folders. For instance
file:src/main/java//*&&!file:src/main/java/my//* will exclude all files in my folder.
In Intellij 15, to exclude a folder just do this:
in the Project window, select the folder then right click and choose "Mark Directory As" > "Excluded"
IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3.3 (Ultimate Edition)
In my case, all the generated files in .tox and _build kept showing up in my Find results. It may be a blunt instrument but I added these two folder types to the Preferences -> Editor -> File Types -> Ignored Files and Folders: .tox, _build. For whatever reason, adding _build will not be accepted as part of the ignored set.
Caveat, you will not see these files and folders in your Project navigator. However, it’s a small price to pay for not having them show up consistently in my search results.
A number of answers work well for older versions of IntelliJ, but in 2020.2, and possibly other recent versions, I keep seeing excluded folders in my search results. In my case: node_modules.
I found something that does work, though. For javascript projects, at least. There might be something similar available for other languages.
First, of course, exclude the directory from your project.
Hopefully this works, but if it doesn't, and you're using Javascript, continue:
Go to Settings -> Languages & Frameworks -> Javascript -> Libraries
There, uncheck all the directories you don't want included in your search.
Whether this is a good idea remains to be seen; IntelliJ doesn't merely exclude them from your search, but from all its code parsing, which means it might not recognise imports from that directory either. For me it seems to work fine at the moment, but I give no guarantees. Try it, but remember how to revert this.
It's an ugly work around. IntelliJ clearly needs a better way to exclude directories from searches.
As some have mentioned, simply setting a folder to 'Excluded' doesn't work in many versions. A combination of the following does for me:
Set the offending folder to 'Excluded' as suggested.
Use the pre-defined Scope 'Project Files'
Profit
Excluding files and folders from projects
Article last modified: 08 June 2020
Mark a file as plain text
In the Project tool window, select the desired file.
From the context menu of the selection, choose Mark as plain text:
Exclude files and folders by name patterns
In the Settings/Preferences dialog Ctrl+Alt+S, click Directories .
In the Exclude files field, type the masks that define the names of files and folders to be excluded, for example, *.min.js or lib. Use semicolons as separators.
If the name of a file matches any of these patterns, the file is treated as excluded.
If the name of a folder matches a pattern, all the files in this folder and in its subfolders are excluded.
Source: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/excluding-files-from-project.html
This one the only thing that works for me on IntelliJ 2022.3.1, even when marking directory as excluded didn't work (it only change the icon as red, but still shows up).
File > Preferences > Editor > Ignored Files and Folders
I can ignore the generated bla.html with this.
If you are searching for usages, open the "Find Usages Settings..." , by default Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F7, to narrow down the scope from "All files" to "Project files".
My specific use case is with an Android project, but this isn't Android specific. I have an IntelliJ-IDEA project with several Android modules which have been localized. If I want to open the file strings.xml, I will pretty much always want the non-localized one (in res/values rather than res/values-fr or whatever). But when I hit <ctrl><shift><n> and type strings.xml, it shows all the 30-zillion localized files and in fact shows them before the non-localized one. I would like to figure out a way to give IntelliJ a hint as to which one I would want, or a way to filter out files from that dialog. Any ideas?
Seems there is a kind of workaround with directory exclusion
http://devnet.jetbrains.com/thread/283525