[FEATURE] Native VSCode extension: in-session text search (Ctrl+F) within the current conversation

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Activity 4 comments · opened Jun 6, 2026

What feature would you like?

A simple in-panel find (Ctrl+F) in the native VSCode extension that searches the text of the current conversation, highlights matches, and lets you jump between them (next/previous).

Current behavior

  • The native VSCode extension has no way to search the text of the ongoing conversation. The "Session history" button searches across/between sessions, not within the current conversation's message content.
  • The terminal CLI has this in fullscreen rendering mode (Ctrl+O transcript mode, then / to search, n/N to jump between matches — see https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fullscreen.md), but the native extension does not.

Prior reports (all closed / stale / locked)

This has been raised before but every prior issue is closed and locked, so there is currently no open tracking issue:

  • #48535 (closed as duplicate of #37182)
  • #37182 (closed, stale)
  • #30599 (closed, stale)

Filing a fresh, focused request since none of the above is open.

Request

Add a native in-panel Ctrl+F that searches the current session's messages (both user and assistant text), with match highlighting and next/previous navigation.

Use case

Quickly locating something said earlier in a long conversation without leaving the extension or exporting the transcript.

Environment

  • Claude Code v2.1.167, native VSCode extension on Windows 11.

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4 Comments

ShatterSide · 2 months ago

Ctrl+F works for me. It's certainly a little clunky sometimes, but it does work. Unless I'm misunderstanding your text?

<img width="1074" height="701" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/24600815-92f6-45a1-983d-f41e8865ebfc" />

dandv · 2 months ago

As of VS Code extension version 2.1.186, there _is_ a search widget, albeit buggy.

This issue should be closed.

crawler · 1 month ago

Same issue in VSCodium. extension installed and updated from the Open VSX https://open-vsx.org/extension/Anthropic/claude-code

<img width="1027" height="1093" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0ca5d013-3171-4613-aaa7-6768361c99b2" />

dandv · 1 month ago

@crawler: I believe the correct issue is what I'm seeing now in issue 72005.