Real-time search results
-
I’m not sure whether this idea has already been suggested - I wasn’t able to find anything about it in the FAQ or on the Community Forum - but I thought I’d share it just in case.
Since the “Find in Files” operation already reports the number of matches in the “Find in Files progress…” dialog, it would be extremely helpful if those matches could also be displayed in a results pane beneath that progress window while the search is still running.
Being able to see partial results as they appear would let users identify where the search term is being found and quickly navigate to familiar files. In many cases, this would allow them to stop the search early once they’ve located what they need - saving both time and system resources.
Just a thought! 😊
-
@Pawan-Sharma
If I had to guess, two words: race conditions (and an opposite-ish problem, deadlocks).
Iteratively updating the results while searching seems like a great way to introduce endless difficult-to-reproduce bugs.
