Search compressed files

[roblourens]

Issue Type: Feature Request

Description

Ripgrep now supports searching compressed files, for some formats.

Currently gz, bz2, xz, and lzma files are supported.

See BurntSushi/ripgrep@f007f94

VS Code Info

VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.20.0-insider (3f8cf53, 2018-02-03T01:26:08.181Z)
OS version: Darwin x64 17.3.0

[BurntSushi]

@roblourens Note that ripgrep currently only looks for gzip, bzip2 and xz binaries. So if those aren't available, then this won't work. It was said that 7z.exe could be used on Windows. It'd be fairly easy to add that in, but I've never used 7z before. Does that sound right?

[roblourens]

That does sound right but what about .zip files? There are usually tools included with the OS to decompress those files. I probably wouldn't enable it in vscode unless it works for typical .zips.

[BurntSushi]

@roblourens We punted on archive formats because that is quite a bit more involved feature! ripgrep doesn't handle .tar.gz either.

[roblourens]

Oh, got it. I suspect that an option to search compressed files in vscode would confuse people if it didn't search archive formats, but I'll have to think about it.

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