Test Preliminary Implementation of Quick Search

[andreamah]

Refs #189964, #190767, #191088

• macOS @aeschli
• linux @karthiknadig
• windows @sbatten

Complexity: 5

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Background:

This iteration, I introduced Quick Search, which is a quick access menu that shows search results. It is meant to show a quick glimpse of search results without jumping to the search view. Eventually, we also hope copilot to offer semantic text search results through this menu.

The following demo shows three different search examples coming from it using three different ways of accessing it. You can access it via:

• Typing % followed by your query in the quick open (the blank picker).
• The Search: Quick Text Search (Experimental) command.
• The list item in the command center.

2023-08-24.11-26-13.mp4

Testing:

This TPI is pretty open-ended, hence the high complexity rating.

Firstly, make sure that the following works as expected:

• You can access this feature via the three ways listed above.
• In files that have more than 10 matches, ensure that clicking the "... More" item takes you to the search viewlet with the correct item focused.
• Results from open editors appear first, then ones from closed editors. Ensure these results don't repeat.

From then, just play around with the feature and ensure that it works as expected. Feel free to make feature requests for what you think is missing from this experience. I'd like to hear what you think of it!

Below are some main features that I'm going to be looking into in following iterations (in no particular order)

• Showing a preview for the highlighted result. Implement preview on highlighting quickpick in quick search #191259
• Adding search options (ie: regex, case-sensitive). Support regex and other search types in quick search #191328
• Having some type of shortcut between different sections (files). Support moving between *sections* of the "themes" menu #70861

Thanks!