# Add vector search to Ctrl/Cmd-F: A new IDE requires a new way of searching the codebase

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/add-vector-search-to-ctrl-cmd-f-a-new-ide-requires-a-new-way-of-searching-the-codebase/6545>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [July 18, 2024, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/add-vector-search-to-ctrl-cmd-f-a-new-ide-requires-a-new-way-of-searching-the-codebase/6545 "2024-07-18T08:32:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jesus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@Jesus](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Jesus)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/add-vector-search-to-ctrl-cmd-f-a-new-ide-requires-a-new-way-of-searching-the-codebase/6545/1 "2024-07-18T08:32:39Z")

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Standard keyword searchi in VSCode feels like it’s from the 90s, just faster.

I’d love to have a search within my codebase that performed vector search, just as @codebase does when grabbing context for a chat. It would show all the matching snippets as results, linked to their source.

Ideally, combined with the reranker.

It would allow me, for example, to search for everything related to “login”, even if the codebase refers to it as “signin”, in a simple and natural way.

Also, I believe this wouldn’t require advanced models; perhaps the same implementation you have for the reasoning step would work.

I hope you like the idea and see its potential in the same way I do. Please let me know if you have any questions I could help with.

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**Author:** ![Brian\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9f8e36/32.png) [@Brian\_A](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Brian_A)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/add-vector-search-to-ctrl-cmd-f-a-new-ide-requires-a-new-way-of-searching-the-codebase/6545/2 "2024-07-18T12:58:09Z")

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I recommend the devs look into ColBERT for really good retrieval searches: [Announcing Vespa Long-Context ColBERT | Vespa Blog](https://blog.vespa.ai/announcing-long-context-colbert-in-vespa/)

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/add-vector-search-to-ctrl-cmd-f-a-new-ide-requires-a-new-way-of-searching-the-codebase/6545/3 "2026-06-18T10:13:52Z")

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Closed on June 18, 2026, 10:13am UTC