search results in a tree view

[ThomasJuhasz]

Hi guys,

I'd really like to have an option to see the search results in a tree view. When working on big JS codebases I find it difficult to see the relevant findings in this flattened list, although in many cases when the search result is small, this flattened list is easier for the eye.
BTW this search panel could be a nice extension point as well, not sure what is an easier thing to do.
I'll try to contribute sometime, but I hope someone would take this ticket soon :)

Thanks guys,
Thomas

PS.: VSCode is awesome, you are awesome, thank you.

[d-akara]

I think there are many different interesting ways the results could be represented that are useful to different people based on context of their project. I also struggle a bit on large codebases.
I recently posted some proposals in #19939
Possibly some of these ideas could be consolidated, or an extension point made so that alternative views could be provided.

[Tyriar]

I think filtering the explorer would cover this #10026

/cc @roblourens since it's related to search though.

[ThomasJuhasz]

@Tyriar I really dont think the two are the same. The feature you are suggesting is in visual studio and I cant describe how bad I hated it and it wasn't just me. It's nice to have your explorer untouched while searching in another tab. I think the duplicate tag should be taken off, it's not the same.

[Tyriar]

Ping @roblourens

[jsynowiec]

@Tyriar anything new regarding this FR? Doing an extensive refactor over a large codebase is really inconvenient without an ability to group results by folder, display a tree or any other additional way of further narrowing down search results.

[roblourens]

We are thinking about how search results will look in a multi-folder situation (#396) and how that will affect the UX, so we probably won't do anything here until then.