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FindWidget: Add "Nth Match" input field and facilitate arbitrary access to matches #309835
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Description
Summary
Cycling through search results can be time-consuming when the set of results is large. This is especially problematic in dense codebases where the text is so vast and sprawling that the LSP and indexers struggle to link references to their definitions. A user would have to manually navigate to a symbol as opposed to using the native Go To Definition (F12) methods or similar.
With this change, the user would have a better line of sight to the target symbol no matter how large the file is and no matter how poorly the LSP is performing.
Feature Request
Add an input field to findWidget and others, and allow the user to type the desired match number and jump to it arbitrarily.
Implementation Details
See vscode PR
See xterm.js PR
Activity
vs-code-engineering commentedon May 29, 2026
This feature request is now a candidate for our backlog. The community has 60 days to upvote the issue. If it receives 20 upvotes we will move it to our backlog. If not, we will close it. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.
Happy Coding!
vs-code-engineering commentedon Jul 19, 2026
This feature request has not yet received the 20 community upvotes it takes to make to our backlog. 10 days to go. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.
Happy Coding!
vs-code-engineering commentedon Jul 30, 2026
🙁 In the last 60 days, this feature request has received less than 20 community upvotes and we closed it. Still a big Thank You to you for taking the time to create this issue! To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.
Happy Coding!