Search Everywhere for comments in PyCharm

Question

PyCharm's Search Everywhere functionality easily allows the user to search everywhere for source code in every file of the project. However it is not able to search for comments, is there a way around that problem?

I usually leave important comments of lessons learned or links to Stack Overflow containing helpful code, and would love a way to easily search for these comments, when I forget where I wrote them.

Westering

Answer 1

Ctrl + Shift + F

Is a project wide text search. I think there's an option button to search comments.

Yanina

Thanks, nice alternative, an addition of comments to "Search Everywhere" would be the ideal, but "Find in Path" has some useful settings as well. – Westering

You can file a feature request to pycharm if you really want it, but source files are more useful to find in my opinion – Yanina

Indeed, the feature should be optional – Westering

Feature Requested: intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/requests/… – Westering

Answer 2

After Ctrl + Shift + F you need this button:

And select in comments.

Flatten

Answer 3

I once had a problem with Search Everywhere or Find in Path(Ctrl + Shift + F for windows) i.e. project wide search for a django project in Pycharm Professional 2020.1.
Although filter was selected as Anywhere, still some were not being found in the project files which were actually there.

But after invalidating caches & restarting like the picture, everything was fine.

First select Invalidate Caches / Restart... in File menu.

Then click Invalidate and Restart in the Invalidate Caches popup window.

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