Enrico Tröger wrote:
It is actually described in the manual, see http://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#filtering-out-version-control...
The trick is to use the 'Extra options' and tell grep to not care about directories like .svn. As also said in the manual, you need a somewhat recent grep version (2.5.2) for the --exclude-dir option. [...]
For those of us stuck with grep v2.5.1 or earlier (Fedora - so much for cutting edge!) and who use the shell already, there's always find...
find . -name .svn -prune -o -exec grep -H searchterm '{}' ;