Allow/use folder name when opening file in multi-root workspace

Context

We have a mono-repo with multiple Dart code projects which are each in their own folder directly under the root.

For optimal tooling support we use a “multi-root workspace”.

The file structure looks like this:

/
 a/
   foo.txt
 b/
   bar.txt

The Problem

Trying to open a/foo.txt from the quick open menu (<kbd>CMD</kbd> + <kbd>P</kbd>) leads to 0 results.

Feature Request

Tooling in the CLI as well as the paths in PRs on GitHub often reference the “local” paths inside the repository, e.g. a/foo.txt which also maps 100% with the file layout in the VS Code explorer.

Unfortunately when pasting a/foo.txt into the file open (<kbd>CMD</kbd> + <kbd>P</kbd>) dialog, it doesn’t show any results. When using just foo.txt the correct file in a/ is offered.

I think it would be nice to have these “perfect matches” offered to open directly.

[bpasero]

I believe the underlying issue is that we take the user typed query string from quick open and run it over all folders that are known to the multi root workspace. We would probably have to detect that the user has put the name of a root workspace and remove that from the search string? Or maybe we could trick Ripgrep into understanding that a root workspace has a certain prefix (name) that should be taken into account?

[bpasero]

Actually isn’t this https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/32444 ?