Search in project freezes Brackets while running

[MikeSpock]

When doing a Search in project with Shift+Ctrl+F, brackets freezes until the search ends. In larger projects this means 30 seconds or even more.

It would be nice if the search would run in the background, and results would appear asyncronously in the search results window.

[peterflynn]

@MikeSpock We plan to have the search be more in the background in the future -- see the user story 'Find in Files: Async, cancelable search with progress meter' in our feature backlog. (Feel free to upvote it!)

In the meantime, in the upcoming Sprint 37 release you can choose subfolders, file extensions, etc. to exclude from searches -- which can speed them up considerably if, for example, you have a huge node_modules folder in your project that you usually don't need to search inside.

[peterflynn]

You can also use this extension to check how many files are in your project overall. If it's > 10,000 then it's definitely worth looking into ways to scope down the search...

[peterflynn]

Closing since async (non-blocking) search and updating results incrementally are both already tracked on our feature backlog.