Is there any trick to make Visual Studio Code Quick Open faster?

Question

Quick Open is a must-have feature in any IDE, but in Visual Studio Code (by default bound to cmd+e on Mac) it seems to be very slow in finding anything. Is there any configuration option/trick to make it faster by indexing files etc.?

Answer 1

We plan to add indexing in future updates. Until then you can configure to exclude more folders from searches. The setting is called search.exclude and allows to set patterns.

Btw quick open learns about files you open often and keeps those in a MRU list. Quick open should be fast for those files.

Answer 2

This extension might be useful for opening files faster: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/astral-keks.folder-indexing

It allows user to navigate to any file in workspace by just typing part of its name in editbox opened by workbench.action.showAllSymbols (Go To Symbol In Workspace) command.