quickopen: lookup files in search.exclude locations

[unional]

• VSCode Version: 1.18.1

search.exclude filter out files and keep the search clean. That's great.

However, at times I wanted to look for files at those locations and have to either locate the file manually from the folder or change the search.exclude value just to look for that file.

Would be great if we can have a command that can search at all locations or search at all excluded locations.

use cases

• Look at transpiled file otherwise excluded from searches normally.
• Open files in node_modules to place breakpoint there for debugging
• Open files in node_modules where currently F12 always point to the typings files.

[roblourens]

There is a button to support this already - in the search viewlet, click the ... button to expand the details section, and see the toggle button in the 'files to exclude' box which will disable the exclude settings. Anything else would be covered by #20530

[unional]

That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking for this:

And have a way to find all files.

[roblourens]

Oh, got it. We did discuss adding a matching button in quick open. I don't know of an existing issue.

[chrmarti]

/duplicate of #15604

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