Find Again!

🔎 Find Again! is a Visual Studio Code extension that lets you save and reuse your workspace's search queries. Whether you're tracking bugs, reviewing code, or running recurring tasks, you'll never lose a critical search again. You can share search configs between projects or with other devs! ⏳

📃 Table of Contents

• Features
• Usage
• Example
• Changelog
• Support
• License
• Related
• Author

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🤖 Features

🔍 Search Preset System

Users define custom searches inside a search.faq file, a centralized search index where each search entry supports include/exclude globs, queries, and description metadata.

⚡ Instant Access

Seamless Command Palette and shortcut integration with cached pick items for blazing-fast access.

🧠 Smart Caching Mechanism

The search.faq-based index is read once and cached at all times, minimizing runtime computation and reload lag.

💾 File Watcher Support

Automatically detects create/change/delete events for search.faq and re-indexes the search set.

🛠️ Debounced Index Reload with Zep

Uses Zep for throttled, graceful search refresh – prevents excessive filesystem calls.

🟡 StatusBar Feedback

Displays real-time indexing status, search availability, and errors/warnings using iconography and tooltips.

📄 Fallback Support with Creation Prompt

If the search.faq is missing, prompts the user to auto-generate a starter config with sample data.

🚫 Graceful Error Handling

Detects malformed search.faq file and offers to open it for inspection without crashing or blocking the flow.

✍🏻 Editable JSON File Format

Search definitions are human-readable, easy to version-control, and ideal for collaborative logic crafting.

🫱🏼‍🫲🏼 Perfect for Sharing

The search.faq search-index file is perfectly sharable between projects, even between developers!

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🕵🏼 Usage

After installing the extension, open a folder and launch Find Again! via:

• the Command Palette: Find Again!: Run a Search,
• the keyboard shortcut:
  • CTRL + ALT + F (Windows, Linux)
  • Command + Option + F (macOS).

The extension expects a searches index – search.faq located in the current workspace's configuration folder .vscode. The searches index is a JSON file with custom properties. If one doesn't exist, an option to create one is presented. See Examples below for more information.

Figure 1. Find Again! – regular search

Figure 2. Find Again! – regex search

Figure 3. Find Again! – Command Palette

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🗒️ Example

Here's an example of how a search.faq file looks like:

{
    "searches": {
        "My TS Search": {
            "query": "Exists",
            "include": "./src/*.ts",
            "caseSensitive": true,
            "description": "Search TypeScript source files"
        },
        "My Docs Search": {
            "query": "#{1,6}",
            "include": "./*.md",
            "caseSensitive": false,
            "regex": true,
            "description": "Find all Headers in Docs"
        }
    }
}

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📝 Changelog

📑 The changelog is available here: CHANGELOG.md.

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💖 Support

I work hard for every project, including this one and your support means a lot to me!
Consider buying me a coffee. ☕



Thank you for supporting my efforts! 🙏😊

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🪪 License

Licensed under the GPLv3 license.

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👨🏻‍💻 Author

Created by Igor Dimitrijević (@igorskyflyer).