The dockable Search in Files tool is used to search and replace within sets of files, or for searching Wing's documentation. It performs searches in batch and displays a result list for all found matches. This list can then be traversed to view the matches in the source editor, and is automatically updated as edits alter the search results. Searching may span the current editor, a single selected file, all open files, all project files, all of Wing's documentation, or sets of files on disk.

Files in a set may be filtered by file type, for example searching only through Python files in the project.

In addition the options also available in the search tool, the following choices are available in the Options popup menu:

Sub-sections:

      5.3.0. Replace in Multiple Files