• 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"