dsh-sidebar-enhancement-search

Anyone who juggles a lot of files inside dsh-better-sidebar knows the pain: dozens of entries crammed into the Explorer tree, hunting for that one notes file means scrolling past irrelevant folders, and every icon looks suspiciously similar. This plugin skips the extra-tab route entirely. It drops a search box right under the workspace name in the panel you already have open, filters results in real time with Codex-style subsequence matching (so typing bxmd still finds a-blog.md, with continuous hits and filename-over-path weighting), and lets you open a result in the sidebar editor with one click or jump to the system folder by hovering the trailing icon.

On the visual side it adds per-file-type colour badges to both the Explorer tree and the editor tabs, so PY, JS, PDF, ZIP, SH, and a dozen other formats are instantly distinguishable at a glance. Markdown keeps its built-in hash icon by design. The badges are painted with CSS pseudo-elements, which means React re-renders cannot wipe them; a two-second heartbeat watcher provides a safety net if the MutationObserver ever goes quiet, keeping the plugin stable across long sessions without manual intervention.

The dependency footprint is small: DSH Web GUI plus better-sidebar 0.14, nothing more. That said, the author is upfront that this is a vibecoded, personal-use project that pokes directly at the host DOM, so a future major bump of better-sidebar could break anchors. It is best suited to DSH power users who live in the sidebar and want rapid file location, and to tinkerers comfortable with the small-but-real risk of a homegrown enhancement. If your workflow rarely needs to hunt for files, it is not a must-have.