For anyone coming across this post looking for something similar to what I was, the answer is the “Another Quick Switcher” plugin. It is honestly just better in every way. I use:
- “File name fuzzy search” - replaces the normal Quick Switcher
- “In file Search” - replaces the core Search + `file:filename content:’ (doesn’t work quite in the same way as Search in File (cmd+F usually), but supplements it well)
- “Grep” - replaces core Search completely using the command line tool
ripgrep, for those that don’t code this functionality might be hard to set up though since you need to install ripgrep (I also had to mess around withPATHwhich was annoying).
It also has a bunch of other great search types like just for headings or backlinks and you can evenMake your own search types.
I completely disabled Search and Quick Switcher with this. Note though that grep can’t be installed on mobile so you might want to keep Search around for this reason