Global search like in Code

[alper]

I find global search in Helix to not be good enough compared to how I would normally use it in Code:

• Search only in specific subfolders does not work. I tried doing cd to change to the folder before doing Space-/ but that does not seem to work.
• It is unclear to me how to search while including and excluding filetypes.
• There is no search history?

[junglerobba]

This feature already exists in all pickers with filtering.
For example, for the global search you could enter your search term and then follow it up with %p .yaml to only search in a specific filetype. This is still a fuzzy search, so this can include paths and endings, e.g. version %p docs .md will filter by path and filetype.

[alper]

That's a totally different documentation site than the one I normally turn up?

[alper]

Like I was just googling for it and couldn't find it.

[taotien]

This is the one you want https://docs.helix-editor.com/pickers.html#filtering-picker-results

The vercel website is hosted by a fan and is archived here: https://github.com/nik-rev/helix-docs.