June 26, 2009:

This plugin was written by Mike Doty <mike@psyguygames.com> and slightly modified by Vince Wadhwani <vince71@gmail.com>. 
The original Find in Documents plugin is Copyright (C) 2007 Mike Doty. Parts of this code were also taken from the 
SnapOpen plugin which is Copyright (C) 2006 Mads Buus Jensen <online@buus.net>.

Limitations: It will only open the file from the sidepane if you have a file open. It uses the linux grep command to 
search subdirectories so it will take a long time depending on where you are.  If you develop rails, I'd suggest you not 
search your entire Rails Root but rather just the app directory.

Requirements: Gedit (of course) and the File Browser Pane plugin must be enabled.  

Conflicts: Currently this plugin is known to conflict with the Find in Documents plugin

Installation: Copy the files to ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins

Usage: In the sidepane, use the file browser plugin to open to the root of your application.  Click the FindinDocuments 
tab and enter a value to search by.  Click search and hopefully watch the results roll in

The earlier Find in Documents plugin required that you have the document open in gedit.  This version allows you to 
search within any document in the root of the filebrowser pane (given the above limitations) If the previous behavior is 
preferable, please see download the original plugin from http://www.psyguygames.com/FindInDocuments_plugin.tar.gz

Release notes:
 June 26, 2009: 
 
  1. now supports special characters in search. e.g. You can now search for "<%= link_to" instead of just "link_to"
  2. ignore comments checkbox will also ignore lines that start with "<!--" and "/*" for html and css respectively

--Vince Wadhwani