I am wondering why seemingly all of a sudden VSCode is not exhibiting a behavior I am confident it once did.
That behavior would be that when I am searching using VSCode's built in search tool it does not change my focus to the next search result when I dismiss the current result. See video below where my cursor stays focused on the open file which is the dismissed result.demonstration.
I would expect that when I dismiss a search result if it is the currently selected one the focus jumps to the next result. Maybe this never was a feature but I am increasingly certain that it was. I am having trouble finding documentation around the dismiss feature but below I've linked what I've dug up so far. None of it seems to conclusively answer this for me one way or another.
- https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/48911
- https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/43976
- https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/48740
The third link specifically seems to be evidence to support my claim that this once was the functionality.
You can see the behavior in the gif below:
Notice on the right hand side how the line numbers are changing when they dismiss the active selection. This almost imperceptible clue shows the editor is changing focus to the now selected search result as I described.