workspace/symbol only sends the part of the query before the first space the the provider

[BazookaMusic]

Type: Bug

1. Create a simple extension which exposes the workspace/symbol endpoint
2. Ctrl+T in VSCode, write "#my query string"

Expected: Extension receives a request where: { "query": "my query string" }

Actual: Extension receives a request where: { "query": "my" }

The rest of the query is thrown away.

At the same time though, the picker does not ignore the spaces, so it will match symbols called "my query string" exactly and prioritize them in the search. However, this way the language server extension cannot do its own filtering since it loses most of the information. The filtering can also be wrong since the intent of the user here is definitely not to search for "my".

VS Code version: Code 1.98.2 (ddc367ed5c8936efe395cffeec279b04ffd7db78, 2025-03-12T13:32:45.399Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631 Modes:

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Extensions (14)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
vscode-sql-formatter	adp	1.4.4
vulnerability-extension	dev	1.2025.205001
copilot	Git	1.293.1471
copilot-chat	Git	0.26.2025030506
azure-pipelines	ms-	1.228.0
vscode-azureresourcegroups	ms-	0.9.4
vscode-dotnet-runtime	ms-	2.0.8
al	ms-	16.0.0
sarif-viewer	MS-	3.4.4
azure-account	ms-	0.12.0
powershell	ms-	2024.2.2
vscode-speech	ms-	0.12.1
vscode-xml	red	0.27.1
kuskus-kusto-language-server	ros	3.3.1

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[dbaeumer]

Tested this with a provider based on VS Code API and it is already a problem there.

[bpasero]

All quick picker split a query by spaces to allow to narrow down a search by multiple segments.

This may not be the best choice for symbols if they contain spaces (which is probably not very common).

//cc @TylerLeonhardt

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