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Global Search

The Global Search panel finds — and optionally replaces — text across every supported file type in the open Packs (and, optionally, in vanilla and parent mods). It’s the closest thing RPFM has to a project-wide grep.

Toggle the panel from View → Toggle Global Search Window (default shortcut Ctrl+Shift+F).

Pattern & options

  • Pattern. What to match. By default it’s a literal substring search.
  • Use Regex. Treat the pattern as a regular expression instead.
  • Case sensitive. Off by default.

There is no “match whole word” toggle — wrap the pattern in word boundaries yourself in regex mode (\bword\b) if you need that behaviour.

Sources

A search can target several sources independently:

  • Per-Pack checkboxes. One checkbox per open Pack appears under the Sources group; tick the ones you want included.
  • Game Files. Vanilla files for the active game (requires the dependencies cache).
  • Parent Files. Parent mods declared by the active Pack (see Dependencies).
  • Assembly Kit Files. AK-only tables and locs (requires the AK install path to be configured for the active game).

You can mix any combination. The result tree groups matches per source.

File types covered

The search has a per-file-type checkbox for every editable type RPFM knows about. There’s also a Search on All master toggle and a Search on All Common toggle (DB / Loc / Text — the day-to-day editable types).

For DB tables and Loc files the matches are cell-level with row context; for text-style files matches are line-level; for the structured types (Atlas, Portrait Settings, etc.) matches are field-level inside the file’s structure.

Working with results

Each match in the results tree is clickable: clicking a DB cell opens the table and selects the cell, clicking a Loc match opens the right loc file at the right key, and so on.

Multi-select results to scope a follow-up replace.

Replace

Two modes:

  • Replace match — replace the currently-selected match(es) with the replacement text.
  • Replace all matches — replace every match in the result set in one shot.

Replace operations only run on Packs (Game / Parent / AK sources are read-only and skipped automatically).

Replace is destructive. Make sure you’ve saved (or have a recent autosave) before doing a project-wide replace, especially with regex.