lixinliang
Search only works on the active directory (open/clicked on)
I recently noticed that I can't search for files inside folders that are collapsed/closed. It will only show files in open folders within tree-view.
Was it always this way or is this a new bug after recent atom core/tree view updates? I think I recall the search plugin filtering files AND directories and the files within ANY directory not too long ago...
See https://github.com/lixinliang/tree-view-search-bar/issues/3
That's an old problem.
And I haven't fixed it till now.
I think it could not be fixed in normal way🤔, maybe I have to hack it.
Any way, I would figure it out, as soon as possible.
@lixinliang maybe expand all folders when user start typing, and when the field is empty collapse folders to its prev state.
In my opinion, I think that if the project folder is including the node_modules, when expanding all folders, there would be too much dom in tree-view...
@lixinliang thanks for your response. I can understand and appreciate how the filter works when looking at an active / open directory, however since the plugin is named "search" I thought it would allow anything typed in the box to show up regardless of whether it is within a closed folder or not.
@codeitco yep, that's my original idea. However, it's defective right now. And this problem is what I prepare to resolve.
okay, maybe then we can have an extra option under settings to ignore certain folders like node_modules / vendor
I want to search especially from node_modules folder. Based on this discussion I noticed I have to first toggle it open. So this would need some kind of settings to enable searching from collapsed folders and exclude certain folders from search
