With anything I'm working on, the first place I go is the dired buffer for the project root. When say I'm trying to find in which file a certain thing is, I na

With anything I'm working on, the first place I go is the dired buffer for the project root. When say I'm trying to find in which file a certain thing is, I narrow the search down with % g, then search with isearch or M-x occur in the marked files. When I do know the actual string I want to find, I run M-x grep instead. I do whatever I do with the project and use VC mode to check in my changes if necessary. As I work most often with plain text documents, using TAGS files is often not an option.