There is a new experimental setting for VS Code’s copilot that lets you enable semantic search in the search window.

github.copilot.chat.search.semanticTextResults

Enable semantic search in VS Code

Once you enable the semantic search setting, you’ll see a new dropdown under the search results in the search panel. Expanding the dropdown will show you the semantic search results (after a few seconds of processing).

Semantic search in search panel

Caution

I’ve noticed that this works better in non-blog projects. In my Hugo blog (this website), the search results miss things that seem obvious.

Caution

These semantic search results don’t seem to respect your ignore search settings.