Description
This is a duplicate of #90033 that was incorrectly closed IMO:
When you do a search in VS Code, it will return the same line multiple times if the search string is found in a line multiple times. For example, if you search for "Automobile", the following line will show up 3 times in the search results:
var myAutomobile = CreateAutomobile('Ford Automobile');I'd like a feature or a setting so that each line is displayed in the search results only once.
(I know that I can manually remove a line from the search results by clicking the 'x' on the right-hand side, but it would be a huge time savings if there was an automated way to do this.
You may want to check my comment back on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60006913/how-to-exclude-duplicate-lines-in-vs-codes-search-results/60013518?noredirect=1#comment106231547_60013518
One of the contributors wrote:
This is a known limitation of the search viewlet, but in the search editor duplicates will show up on the same lime.
I see in the linked SO post you mention not being able to open links from the search editor, they can be opened with F12, Ctrl/Cmd + Click, or Double Click.
and then closed the issue as "completed" and added the "duplicate" label without linking the exact issue that was duplicated.
Acknowledging a limitation doesn't resolve the user's need for a cleaner, more efficient search experience within the primary search viewlet.
Using search editor preview is a workaround, not a "completed" solution to the requested feature. This is not that much better than using regex Automobile.+ every time instead of Automobile or clicking the 'x'.
Having a setting like "search.uniqueLines" would be a perfect solution.