Allow additional fuzzy search within files found via CTRL+P

[smuuf]

• VSCode Version: 1.18.1
• Feature request

How about allowing users to fine-tune their fuzzy searching within a project/workspace? This could be done by treating the : character (which AFAIK is not an allowed character in Windows and Unix filenames) as a separator.

Format: <fuzzy matching file paths>:<fuzzy matching text inside found files>
Examples/use cases:

• function:getnode - Find files with path fuzzy-matching the string function that also contain lines that fuzzy-match string getnode.
• controller:action - Same logic. Could be used for example to trivially find all controllers that define at least one action (yes, possibly with some false positives).

Example

Current behaviour

1. ctrl+p, enter function
2. Search would find these files:

Proposed behaviour

1. ctrl+p, enter function:getnode
2. Seach would return these files:

And would find only these two files, because contents of the files ...

• ...\nikic\php-parser\lib\PhpParser\Builder\Function_.php
• ...\nikic\php-parser\lib\PhpParser\Node\Stmt\Function_.php

... match getnode "fuzzily":

1. First one contains a line with "getSubNodeNames" and
2. Second file contains just "getNode"

[smuuf]

Maybe it would be better for the separator to be #, as that's what Sublime Text uses for the same functionality, AFAIK.

[brandondrew]

I don't know ultimately whether : is better or # is better, but I definitely find : much easier to type, and I don't think that compatibility with Sublime is important. The key could be configurable for those users who care about consistency with Sublime, but the default should be chosen to:

1. not conflict with characters that will be needed as part of a file name
2. be convenient and easy to type

with criteria number 1 being far more important.

[brandondrew]

The user could also have to type a modified key, such as ⌘; to avoid possible conflicts with file names (where that key combination is given simply to explain what I mean by "modified key" rather than as a specific suggestion).

[smuuf]

My favourite choice would be the : character, too.

[syntaxseed]

This would be great. An awesome feature that exists in SublimeText.

[roblourens]

I don't think Sublime has this feature? They use foo:100 for "line 100 in a file with foo in the path", vscode supports this syntax too. Since we are already using that syntax for something I don't think we can support this feature as originally requested...

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[roblourens]

Never mind, I do see it with #