I stumbled across a post advocating Find -> Search in Files... function as an alternative to somewhat slow and awkward Pfind. Oddly enough, despite using Geany regularly, I also had never used that function. Having tried it, I would certainly say you can definitely throw Pfind (well, I search for files themselves in pcmanfm so not sure about Rox), that Geany text search function is far superior (and even more so since you can use ):