Quartus II: Searching in all project files

Hi all,

When processing a large project with many files that has been written by someone else you typically need to search for something in all source files to find out where that expression is used. I haven't found a way to do that in Quartus II, have you?

With the Windows installation, the problem is exacerbated by the way how Quartus installer (or something) has registered the file types such as .vhd: The Windows Search doesn't look into them!

So far, I have found no better solution than using an external POSIX-style grep program (e.g. from MINGW package). However, if the source files are in a subdirectory structure, then a simple "grep" won't do but you'll need something more complicated such as

find . -name "*.vhd" -exec grep search_string {} +

Thanks in advance for any ideas for easier searches over multiple source files...

Vesa