Better Find in Files for Visual Studio Code 🔍

Bring the powerful, intuitive JetBrains Rider / IntelliJ-style Find & Replace in Files experience into Visual Studio Code!

📸 Screenshots

Better Find Modal Preview

Better Find Docked Sidebar

⚡ Blazing Fast Searching: Powered by native ripgrep for lightning-fast search performance across massive codebases with instant streaming results.
🎨 Darcula / JetBrains Inspired Aesthetics: Clean, modern dark UI designed to mimic JetBrains Rider's Find in Files panel with syntax highlighting tokens.
📌 Dual Surface Support: Use it as a floating editor modal tab or dock it directly into the VS Code Primary Sidebar, Secondary Sidebar, or Bottom Panel!
⚡ Auto-Focused & Highlighted Input: Opening or focusing the search panel automatically selects the search bar text so you can start typing immediately without extra clicks.
🔄 Instant Toggle Close: Pressing Ctrl+Shift+F or Ctrl+Shift+R while active toggles and closes the view smoothly.
📝 Live Code Context Preview: Interactive code editor preview pane showing surrounding lines with syntax highlighting and LSP semantic tokens.
✏️ Editable Code Preview: Edit code directly inside the preview pane and press Ctrl+S to save changes to the underlying source file!
🎯 Precise Search Scopes: Search across the whole Project, specific Modules, custom Directories, or presets (Open Files, Git Changed Files, Source Files, Test Files).
🔎 Find Usages: Find symbol usages across the workspace using Alt+F7 or Shift+F12.
🔄 Smart Tab Navigation: Reuses your existing open tabs when navigating search hits, preventing messy split-view editor duplicates.

Shortcut (Windows / Linux)	Shortcut (macOS)	Action
`Ctrl + Shift + F`	`Cmd + Shift + F`	Open / Toggle Better Find in Files
`Ctrl + Shift + R`	`Cmd + Shift + R`	Open / Toggle Docked Better Replace View
`Ctrl + Alt + F`	`Cmd + Option + F`	Toggle Docked Sidebar View
`Alt + F7` / `Shift + F12`	`Alt + F7` / `Shift + F12`	Find Usages for Symbol at Cursor
`↑` / `↓`	`↑` / `↓`	Navigate search hits
`Enter`	`Enter`	Open selected match
`Ctrl + S`	`Cmd + S`	Save code edits made inside preview pane
`Esc`	`Esc`	Close search panel

This extension contributes the following settings:

betterFindInFiles.maxResults: Maximum number of search results returned (default: 1000).
betterFindInFiles.contextLines: Number of context code lines to display around the match in the preview pane (default: 8).
betterFindInFiles.useRipgrep: Enable high-performance native ripgrep binary search engine (default: true).

This project includes GitHub Actions workflows:

CI Workflow (.github/workflows/ci.yml): Builds TypeScript, runs tests, and verifies extension packaging on every push and pull request.
Publish Workflow (.github/workflows/publish.yml): Automatically packages and publishes the extension to the VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX when a new GitHub release tag is created.

This project is licensed under the MIT License.