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Better Search

Travis Thieman

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Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Better Search

This extension adds a new search functionality that presents your results in a full window. This approach is borrowed from Sublime Text, many Emacs modes, and various other common editors.

Better Search Example

Features

  • Displays search results in an editor window, rather than the sidebar
  • Results link to the matching file at the correct line
  • Shows context lines around the line matching your query
  • Syntax highlighting based on the most common file type found in your search results
  • Integrates with File Explorer so you can easily search in specific folders

How to Use

Once you've installed the extension, you can take it for a spin:

  1. Hit Cmd + P and type to find "Better Seach: Quick Find" and hit enter to run the command
  2. In the search buffer, type enter on one of the links (file name or column number) to go to a file
  3. To re-run the current search, type g or run betterSearch.reexecute

There's also betterSearch.searchFull if you'd like to run a search with more control over the execution options.

Configuration

  • betterSearch.context: Number of context lines to show around search results. Default: 2
  • betterSearch.sortFiles: Sort files for deterministic sort. Enabling this limits the search to 1 thread and will negatively impact performance.

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