Button to disable excludes in quickopen

[nesl247]

In PhpStorm, WebStorm, etc. the ability to search for a file, object, etc. does not limit you to only non-excluded files.

As you can see, there is the "Include non-project items" checkbox. This is never checked by default. It would be great if VS Code implemented this feature. By default, we don't want to show classes from composer libraries for example, but we do need to be able to search them on occasion.

This should be added for symbol and file search.

[roblourens]

We have considered a toggle button for whether to apply the exclude settings

[nesl247]

Please make it work like Jetbrain's dialog though in that if you press the same combination again, it triggers the checkbox.

[skprabhanjan]

@roblourens , can I work on this? :)
If so can you give me some starter points before starting this ?
Thanks!

[roblourens]

I think this needs some ux work and discussion on our side, I'm not really convinced it's needed.

[roblourens]

But thanks for your enthusiasm :)

[nesl247]

Can you explain why you aren’t convinced it’s needed? How do you deal with this situation, which I would imagine impacts almost every user.

[roblourens]

I'm sure this is useful for some users but our quick open UI is very simple and lightweight and I'd like to keep it that way if at all possible

[skprabhanjan]

But thanks for your enthusiasm :)

Firstly sorry for asking this here!
@roblourens it will be of great help to me if you can assign or let me know on any issue that I can work on and contribute.
Thanks :)

[cdmihai]

I run into this limitation a lot. My build produces a lot of stuff, and I often want to browse the build artifacts:

• test results. I can do a recursive search string for failed tests, and that UI lets me ignore .gitignore. But sometimes I also want to go to specific test result files via go to file, and can't
• my build also produces test data, which I want to browse from time to time. I know exactly what the file name is (though not the 100 character path), but I have to use the command line because I can't quickly jump to it via vscode

[roblourens]

Duplicate of #15604