I whipped up a quick function that allows you to quickly search for a string in a folder or project (if you use repository detection) using the commercial PowerGrep program.
Just add the following to your .emacs:
(defun power-grep-selection-folder ()
(interactive)
(start-process "powergrep" "foo" "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\JGsoft\\PowerGREP3\\powergrep.exe"
"/search" "/folderrecurse"
(replace-regexp-in-string (regexp-quote "\/") (regexp-quote "\\") default-directory)
"/searchtext" (buffer-substring (region-beginning) (region-end))
"/resultsoptions" "5" "1" "9" "0" "0" "2" "/execute"))From there you can assign it a keyboard shortcut or just use it as is. If you use repository root to manage project scope you can use the following to search your current repository:
(defun power-grep-selection-project ()
(interactive)
(start-process "powergrep" "foo" "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\JGsoft\\PowerGREP3\\powergrep.exe"
"/search" "/folderrecurse"
(replace-regexp-in-string (regexp-quote "\/")
(regexp-quote "\\") (repository-root buffer-file-name))
"/searchtext" (buffer-substring (region-beginning) (region-end))
"/resultsoptions" "5" "1" "9" "0" "0" "2" "/execute"))