IntelliJ Styled Search adds an IntelliJ IDEA-like project search panel to VS Code. It opens as a movable overlay, streams workspace results, and shows an editable Monaco preview for the selected match.
Features
Find in project from a movable IntelliJ-style overlay.
Search the selected text directly from the editor context menu or keybinding.
Preview matches in an embedded Monaco editor with hover, completions, and editor-style highlighting when renderer capture is available.
Narrow large searches with a local trigram index, then verify results with ripgrep.
Support literal, regex, case-sensitive, whole-word, and multi-line searches.
Keep results responsive by streaming matches and showing candidate files while ripgrep is still running.
Reinstall the renderer overlay if VS Code's renderer state changes.
IntelliJ Search: Rebuild Search Index
Rebuild the trigram search index.
IntelliJ Search: Diagnose Active File in Search Index
Inspect why the active file may not be in the index.
Keybindings
Platform
Search Selection
Open Search
macOS
Cmd+Shift+Alt+F
Cmd+Shift+Alt+P
Windows/Linux
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+F
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+P
Settings
Setting
Default
Description
intellijStyledSearch.excludeGlobs
common build/cache folders
Glob patterns excluded from full searches.
intellijStyledSearch.maxFileSize
1048576
Maximum file size in bytes to search.
intellijStyledSearch.maxResults
2000
Match lines to load per batch. Scrolling near the bottom loads the next batch. Values at or below 0 use the built-in default.
Runtime Notes
On first activation, the extension attempts to install a platform-specific ripgrep binary into VS Code's extension global storage. If that install fails or the platform is unsupported, it falls back to VS Code's bundled ripgrep when available, and finally to the JavaScript search path.
The editable preview relies on VS Code renderer internals. If the overlay appears but the preview falls back to plain DOM rendering, run IntelliJ Search: Reinject Renderer Patch (Recovery).
