Creating a feature request of Cancel a Find in Files search (the uservoice topic is also very old).
Currently, if you enable “Use Buffer” for “Find in Files”, you can close the “Find Results” tab to kill the search. If using a results panel, there doesn’t seem to be a way to cancel it. I had to determine whether the search is active by watching CPU usage, which is why I’d also like to ask for some sort of status.
A list of requests:
- A cancel button or X or something like a Yes/No popup when pressing Escape.
- Status bar activity indicator (not progress, just “busy…”)
- Status bar line/phantom at the end of the Find Results panel or tab to show activity.
- Show time duration of the search along with the last line “X matches across Y files”