Search Everywhere / Search Everything pop-up

[notpeter]

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Describe the feature

JetBrains users are accustomed to using shift shift to launch the "Search Everywhere" pop-up. It'd be nice if Zed had something similar

It searches the following:

• Types
• Filenames
• Symbols
• Actions
• Text (full text search)
• Menu items
• Preferences (including inline toggles)

An initial version which included even just these would go a long way to providing a single entry-point so that users didn't have to remember "is it cmd+shift+p or cmd+p"...hmmm.

• Types
• Symbols
• Actions
• Filenames

If applicable, add mockups / screenshots to help present your vision of the feature

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[JosephTLyons]

Related:

• VSCode style unified palettes (global search) #15896

[jonatino]

I'd also add making search a popup as well. I love that I don't need to leave my current tab/window when searching in intellij. I feel its much smoother and my workflow feels less interrupted when I just need to quickly search something. Intellij Search popup window is A++.

[jakubsuchybio]

I'd love "search everywhere" too, having separate "search project files" and "search project symbols" is kinda hard to get used to after switching from RustRover.

[bennidhamma]

I really want to use zed! It's weirdly fun rustifying as much of my toolchain as I can. but this feature is SUCH an instinct for me. To my potential detriment - I have less discipline about which files I put things because I just rely in the bot and the shift shift to basically get me places.

I am going to keep pushing myself to build my zed muscle, because rustification is a p0. but if I fail the lack of this feature may well be a reason. (and what on earth would happen to zed without me using it).

thanks for making a cool editor.

[dested]

I don't want to just spam discussions without adding value, but this is a really big one. Leaving the current editor for ephemeral actions like search everywhere or find all references is really annoying. I understand this is currently the workflow in editors like vscode, but it's a huge stretch coming from jetbrains tooling. Frankly its probably the number one thing keeping me stuck in webstorm given all the other functionality currently available in zed. Even support on how this could be implemented in a plugin would be appreciated!

[alexandru-wd]

Same. It is annoying to change the view context to search for a piece of text

[ibnIrshad]

For me this keybinding works well enough to get symbol/file search as long as you have a decent language server installed. I get Jetbrains-like search which is good enough for files and symbols, if not for everything else.

  {
    "context": "Workspace",
    "bindings": {
      "shift shift": "project_symbols::Toggle"
    }
  }

[MrHaroldA]

That does not find files (by filename) nor actions.

[MrHaroldA]

Every once in a while I will try Zed as "daily driver" instead of PhpStorm. Everything is faster, clearer, easier, more consistent ... but I really miss a "search everywhere" dialog, so I often switch back after just a few hours.

This missing feature really blocks me from using Zed full-time.