Find in files using extenstion API

[jaydenlin]

Hi VS code team,
I would like to make an extenstion using Find in FIles API.
Is there any way to trigger Find in Files via extension ?
I only find workspace.findFiles.
Thanks in advance.

[joaomoreno]

cc @jrieken

[jaydenlin]

Hi @jrieken,
Could you kindly provide any suggestion ?
Thank you.

[jrieken]

That hasn't been exposed yet - mainly because we might change the search engine we use behind the covers which might lead to API breakage...

[jaydenlin]

Hi @jrieken,
Okay.. I see.. Thank you for the reply.

[jrieken]

@roblourens Are we in a good enough state to expose our find in files functionalities for extension authors? Especially wrt regex-searching will we make more changes or is this future proof?

[roblourens]

Yeah, I think we could do this. Someone could implement something like #23931

[jrieken]

Yeah, like my alternative reference ui: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-extension-samples/blob/master/contentprovider-sample/README.md

[DHedgecock]

Could this be used to create an extension allowing for full page results? This editor is so awesome, but the current find results showing in the sidebar is difficult to use in my opinion. I'd like to make an extension for executing a search and opening the results in an editor (similar to Atom search flow).

Excited to see this land!

[IlyaBiryukov]

Ideally, the search API should match SearchProvider API. Though, instead of registering a new search provider, the goal here is to be able to call it and get the search results. And that should work with the default provider that VSCode implements, when nobody else has actually registered one.

[IlyaBiryukov]

@jrieken when do you think it can land into VSCode?