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Fuzzy file open

Finding your way · 1 min read

Open any file by typing a few letters of its name. You do not have to get them right, or in order.

When you would want it

Clicking through folders to find a file you already know the name of is the slowest thing in any editor.

Where to find it

  • All Features → Fuzzy file open
  • Go to a file
  • Turn on or off
  • Settings
  • Keyboard → Ctrl/Cmd+P

What you get out of it

  • The tree becomes somewhere you browse, not somewhere you hunt.
  • Misspellings still find the file - 'ushnd' finds 'useHandler.ts'.
  • Recent files rank higher, so 'the one I just had open' is usually result one.

How to use it, step by step

  1. Press Ctrl+P.
  2. Type two or three letters of the file's name - order does not matter.
  3. Arrow through the ranked results; the path is shown so similarly named files are easy to tell apart.
  4. Press Enter to open the highlighted file.

Why this beats the usual way

This used to be the headline feature of a paid IDE. Here it is built in from the first launch, with no indexing pause on big projects - the ranking runs off the file tree you already have.

Shortcut

Ctrl/Cmd+P

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