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Haven't tried on exceptionally large repos, but in VSCode since actual find logic is on server, it should work simply fine. If I remember correct, even on vscode.dev (in browser with no server), your browser downloads the search index and then search and navigation are fast. Though it may struggle with very large repos.

I’m not sure what you mean by vscode running locally with editing via ssh. I’m fairly certain that when you do a remote connection in vscode, it literally runs the vscode program remotely and you are just connecting to a tunneled web interface. The only thing running locally is the Electron browser shell. So, remote “find in files” is running remotely, so it should be as efficient as it would be from that side.

That said, you can also open a terminal in vscode and use grep. If you’re running remotely, the terminal is also remote. That’s what I normally do.

VS Code uses ripgrep under the hood (locally and remote).