File search - navigate history with arrow keys, and fields with tabs?

[fabiospampinato]

Sublime gives us the ability to cycle through the previous search queries using the arrow keys, the same way as when using a terminal.

Would be cool to have this features also in VSC.

[roblourens]

This actually exists, using alt+up/down. The arrow keys alone move focus around, which I think is more commonly used.

[fabiospampinato]

Good to know, thanks.

It's probably more used since I guess not that many people now about those other shortcuts. I personally find myself way more often in need to cycle through the previous queries than moving up and down to the other fields.

[roblourens]

I think it probably works this way because 'tab' goes to the option buttons (maybe an accessibility requirement). I personally like the current behavior but I'll leave this issue open for any other opinions on changing it so that arrow keys navigate history and tab goes through the fields.

[fabiospampinato]

I think this way is fine, those shortcuts should probably be advertised a little more though.

If the behavior of the tab key changes then people can't toggle anymore the buttons, which assuming somebody does would make the change break things for them.

[allancm]

Weird I have installed version 1.10.1 and I can only move in the history of search by Alt+Up or Alt+Down in the search of the file but not in the "Find in files" or "Replace in files". I think when the feature is enabled it should be easy to know actually it's present in a combo as it is implemented in Visual Studio 2015.

[umpirsky]

Would be cool to be able to navigate files to include the same way. Atom can.

[megatux]

This feature is not complete. You can navigate through your search term history but you can't do the same with file include/exclude patterns. Should I open a new feature request?

[roblourens]

That should be fixed in 1.15, actually

[roblourens]

I noticed that we have #12645 tracking this