UNMAINTAINED

This extension is no longer maintained. VS Code finally built this type of search view into the editor natively! The original issue for that is here.

This repo will be archived as read-only and no longer worked on. Feel free to fork it per its MIT license if you'd like to use or extend it yourself.

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.

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.

Attributions

Magnifying glass icon courtesy of icon lauk