SearchViewlet is missing multi-line "surrounding context"

[PoisonousJohn]

In Sublime text when you search something in the whole project, you can see the so called "surrounding context" in results. This feature is really helpful when you're searching in large projects.

It would be great to have this feature in vscode

[sandy081]

We do show the surrounding context for search results in the search viewlet.

Since we show in viewlet, It is restricted only to the line of the match. But do not show previous or next lines if they do not have matches.

[PoisonousJohn]

@sandy081 yes, this is what I'm talking about. One line is not enough for context. And the lack of this feature stops me from choosing VSCode as the only editor I use. It's essential for large projects.

[chesucr]

I agree with @ivanfateev . And I think it would be better to show the results in a new tab as a new text file like Sublime does. In this way we could do some search in this new text file again, it is very useful for big projects

[gitmatheus]

Having more than one line would be very helpful.

[Luchanso]

Yeah, it will be great feature for search

[a7madgamal]

wow I expected some config to set not an issue :(

[jb510]

related #59458

Note, what I want is exactly Sublime Text's behavior. Moving search to the bottom tab helps, but is still very cumbersome. Providing multi-line context will help, but I also want to see file paths and line numbers. Trust all of this is in 50464 for "someday".

[a7madgamal]

FYI there is a setting for line numbers

[roblourens]

I don't think this fits in the search viewlet. It's not intended to be a place where you read your code, it's too narrow for that. But, when we support showing results in an editor, then we will have this.