Excluded files still appearing in "Go to Symbol in Workspace" with inconsistent results

[gsinti]

I've excluded the vendor dir from Files and Search, but when I search for a symbol within the workspace, I get results from this dir as well as inconsistent/useless results.

I would expect to see the closest matching result at the top, but instead, I get fuzzy results that look within vendor code.

In my opinion, getting partial results returned first when I search is not helpful.

I'd like for a way to disable fuzzy search for workspace symbols, or for the PHP tools extension to filter excluded files and/or give more weight to exact search results.

[jakubmisek]

Thank you for pointing this out.

We should respect files.exclude even for the vendor folder. However, the fuzzy search is handled by VSCode itself.

[gsinti]

When I disable the extension, the fuzzy search results do not occur.

VS Code only has fuzzy search for Go to File, not for Go to Symbol in Workspace.

[gsinti]

Quick example using PHP Intelephense:

Notice in the second screenshot, the fuzzy/partial search returns no results.

[jakubmisek]

@gsinti right, the other extension does not support fuzzy search and provides only simple match results.

[gsinti]

I see.

Is there a way to disable fuzzy search within VS Code for your extension? I see an option called Workbench › List: Default Find Match Type with the options fuzzy and contiguous but I'm not sure if this applies to the symbol search.

If this is the case, could your extension use this setting to enable/disable fuzzy symbol search?

[gsinti]

Alternatively: Is there a way to weight the "closer match" to the top of the list with your extension while maintaining the fuzzy search?

[jakubmisek]

I didn't know this setting! nice.

VSC should respect that setting and filter out what's not matching continuously.

We'll fix the files.exclude so symbols in vendor won't be there.

[jakubmisek]

The latest update does not list symbols from vendor (composer packages) anymore, and respects files.exclude setting.

[challapradyumna]

How do I enable searching symbols from the vendor folder now? as my current files.exclude does not have the vendor folder. Only matches comments in vendor folder.

[jakubmisek]

@challapradyumna currently, we don't list symbols from composer packages.

We probably need to review this, respect the search.exclude setting properly, and include /vendor/ initially.

[challapradyumna]

Issue is that we have internal packages that we constantly jump into to find some information. Searching the files in vendor folder is difficult.

Should i raise a new issue for this ?

[jakubmisek]

@challapradyumna no new issue needed, thank you

[jakubmisek]

the next update will make this behavior consistent with VSCode

• "files.exclude" used to ignore files from indexing (and search).
• "search.exclude" will be newly supported - makes the files ignored within find references and workspace symbols.