I’ve been utilizing Sublime’s Find in Folder feature lately, and can’t believe I didn’t know about this earlier. You can get to it by either right clicking a folder in the file tree, or with the shortcut cmd + shift + f.
By using an absolute path, you can recursively search every bit of text in project files to locate specific elements. You are essentialy performing a grep command but using the Sublime GUI.
This was sometimes taking forever though as I would search from a project root. With a workflow that includes SASS and Grunt, I was sometimes searching unecessary files adding to the search time and making my CPU work harder than it should. After some research on the issue, I discovered folder_exclude_patterns.
This can be placed in your Packages/User/Preferences.sublime-settings
{
"folder_exclude_patterns": [
".svn",
".git",
".hg",
"CVS",
"node_modules",
".sass-cache"
]
}
If you are using git for version control. Your exclude pattern should generally contain the same things as your .gitignore.