Search Everywhere
One picker over commands, files and symbols. Type the name of the thing instead of first choosing which finder it lives in — >, # or @ narrows it when you already know.
Editora had five pickers behind five chords, each asking you to decide what kind of thing you wanted before you could start typing its name. Search Everywhere asks for the name.
- No prefix: commands, project files and symbols together
>commands only,#files only,@symbols only — VS Code’s sigils, because the muscle memory already exists
Results stay grouped by source rather than interleaved on raw score. The sources differ in size by orders of magnitude (tens of thousands of symbols, thousands of files, a few hundred commands), so a flat merge hands the whole list to whichever is biggest and the other two disappear. Each source gets a guaranteed share, and the groups compete on their best result rather than their bulk. Restrict it to one source and nothing is capped — there is nothing left to drown out.
It teaches the way the command palette does: an empty query lists every command, a command whose feature is switched off is listed greyed with the setting that would enable it, the highlighted row’s description sits under the list, and C-h opens its documentation.
M-S-x in the Emacs keymap, Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+E in the others — and it can take over the palette’s own shortcut from Settings → Interface → Pickers, if you would rather have one chord for all of it.
The symbol half is backed by Editora’s own project symbol index, so it works with no language server installed. See Navigation & search.