VS Code: using Quick Open

It may be tempting to use existing commands to open some menus, e.g. workbench.action.quickOpenView to open a specific view. However, most of these built-in commands have a significant shortcoming: they do not perform any filtering when typing.

Instead of using these commands, it is possible to open the Quick Open menu with a specific prefix. For instance, we can open the quickOpenView with a search box using:

{
  // Search the view to open when pressing "v".
  "v": {
    "command": "workbench.action.quickOpen",
    "args": ["view "],
    "when": "...",
  },
}

To find more available prefixes, you can open the Quick Open menu and type ?.