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Developers cannot filter comments from code search results

VS Code developers searching unfamiliar or mid-sized codebases want to find real code usages, but text search also returns matches in comments and sometimes strings. The cited requests say regex is a painful workaround; a related request also describes difficulty controlling whether ignored files appear in search results.

For VS Code developers exploring unfamiliar or mid-sized codebases. Mentioned from Sep 2016 to Sep 2018 on GitHub.

5 different people described this problem in 2 separate discussions.

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Pain
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  1. Its a MUST-HAVE as the only way around is using regex, which is a painful way wrt simpler ways like a checkbox of ignore comments
    SVNKR on GitHub (microsoft/vscode)Sep 2018Asked for a toolHas a workaround
  2. This undermines the habitual workflow of those who are used to rely a lot on the search to read the code. Not sure if any other editor has this feature, but it would be great to have the 'Ignore comments' option in VS Code's search dialog
    thorn0 on GitHub (microsoft/vscode)Sep 2016+194 upvotesAsked for a tool
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