IntelliJ IDEA global search

Question

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 eve

Answer 1

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.