search.maxResults does not affect how many results are found/highlighted

[amunger]

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create a file with the same line 300k times
2. search for something in the line - 19999+ results are found, and that many are highlighted
3. change search.maxResults to something above or below the default
4. search again
   🐛 19999+ results are found, and that many are highlighted

[jhmaster2000]

+1, extremely annoying and counter-intuitive that the setting only affects the full project-wide search accessible on the sidebar and not the local file Ctrl + F search. I ran into this issue and couldn't even resort to the project-wide search with a strict filter for only the desired file, because it was a standalone file I had open, not within the open project's directory, so it couldn't find it.

Having to resort to grep on the terminal with a different regex engine so regex searches aren't even guaranteed to be 1:1 from VSCode is NOT good user experience.

[PrinceOfAbyss]

Will this stay Open and Confirmed forever? Is this so low on the priority list of the project's devs that's not resolved after 1 year after its confirmation?

[kolya182]

@amunger @bpasero Could you take a look at this issue? And for some reason, I can’t type or paste the value null

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