Search viewlet searching opened files regardless or include and exclude patterns

[Tyriar]

• VSCode Version: Code - Insiders 1.15.0-insider (f39385b, 2017-08-01T05:16:44.254Z)
• OS Version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.14393
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Testing #31480

Searching https://github.com/sourcelair/xterm.js, notice that dist is excluded in settings, I have an explicit include setting, but because dist/xterm.js is opened (not active) search results are still presented.

[roblourens]

I did miss a case

[Tyriar]

This is also causing the results to look particularly confusing when there actually are results:

Notice that the other results are in ./src but it's not shown next to the files because there's an assumption that only 1 folder is showing.

[mjbvz]

I'm still seeing results from non-active opened files returned even though they are excluded by search.exclude:

@roblourens Are these the correct test steps?

[jednano]

Any way to promote this ticket out of the backlog? It's extremely annoying.

[jpike88]

This is driving me insane! It renders search almost unusable... this should be a priority bug fix!

[alvipeo]

Guys, can you please fix this? It searches within node_modules in my angular app even if I exclude it!!! You can imagine what a mess it shows as a result!

[xsburg]

For those who come across this thread like I did.
Double check that the cog icon is enabled like in the picture below. When disabled, the search mechanism disregards the settings and goes over all directories. Solved the problem for me.

[akbyrd]

This is super frustrating.

[tudor07]

**/distdid not work for me but dist/** did

[tokomeno]

3 years past after the issue has been opened and still not fixed :(

Frustrating

[sujithmathewthomas]

Any luck on this?

[gigitux]

Same problem here

[braddialpad]

Man I just spent over an hour trying to figure out why my package-lock.json kept getting included in search when I had it specifically excluded in settings. Then I found this bug.. yeah I had it open.

[julee]

Five years past. Any help can I provide to resolve this issue. It's troublesome.

[glasser]

I don't suppose anyone has found a workaround? eg, I'd use an extension with a "close editors associated with search.excluded files" command...

[abyrd-phx]

There's a related but different feature request to ignore opened editors entirely here #153747 if folks following this thread are looking for that behavior as well.

[dizys]

How is this still an issue?!? 😫

[andreamah]

I believe this is fixed.

Notice that the results from notebook.css are not appearing in the search results.