Find In Files in specific folder without opening the folder in VSCode

[LiPengfei19820619]

• VSCode Version:
  1.8.0-Insider
• OS Version:
  Windows 10 64bit

Steps to Reproduce:

1. open a file in VSCode

2. Find In Files.
   I want to search some text in specific folder without opening the folder. But I find I can only search in the opening files, can not search in other files in the folder. I have to open the folder before searching some text in the folder.
   I hope VSCode can support find in specific folder without opening the folder in VSCode first.

   I can do this in almost all other editors, such as UE, Notepad++, Sublime Text.

Thank you!

[LiPengfei19820619]

@sandy081
Would you please add this feature to the iteration plan?
Thank you very much.

[LiPengfei19820619]

This is a very useful and essential feature in my work, so I hope it can appear in the next release.
Thanks very much!

[sandy081]

@LiPengfei19820619 Sorry, Not sure if this can be made in next release. We will prioritize it as per importance.

[LiPengfei19820619]

@sandy081 Thanks for your response.

[roblourens]

I think I will actually be able to do this for May. I wanted to do it in April and ran out of time.

[LiPengfei19820619]

@roblourens Hi, Would you be able to do this for June?
Thanks a lot.

[roblourens]

Maybe, not sure

[roblourens]

Can now search outside of the current workspace in 1.14:

[surjithctly]

@roblourens Is it possible to include a browse icon for "files in include" textbox.? Currently, If I need to search for external folders, I had to manually copy the path and paste. So if there an option to browse the file or folder path, That would be super awesome.

I switched from Sublime yesterday and seems like this feature is missing in VSCode.

Thanks a lot for your consideration.

~Surjith

[roblourens]

@surjithctly I just filed #35442 for that request