Allow contributed configurations to define additional "search terms"

src/vs/platform/configuration/common/configurationRegistry.ts

@@ -200,6 +200,11 @@ export interface IConfigurationPropertySchema extends IJSONSchema {
 	 */
 	enumItemLabels?: string[];
 
+	/**
+	 * Optional terms used for search purposes.
+	 */
+	searchTerms?: string[];
+
 	/**
 	 * When specified, controls the presentation format of string settings.
 	 * Otherwise, the presentation format defaults to `singleline`.

src/vs/workbench/api/common/configurationExtensionPoint.ts

@@ -116,6 +116,13 @@ const configurationEntrySchema: IJSONSchema = {
 								type: 'boolean',
 								description: nls.localize('scope.ignoreSync', 'When enabled, Settings Sync will not sync the user value of this configuration by default.')
 							},
+							searchTerms: {
+								type: 'array',
+								items: {
+									type: 'string'
+								},
+								description: nls.localize('scope.searchTerms', 'A list of additional search terms that help users find this setting in the Settings editor. These are not shown to the user.')
+							},
 							tags: {
 								type: 'array',
 								items: {

src/vs/workbench/contrib/preferences/browser/preferencesSearch.ts

@@ -242,10 +242,13 @@ export class SettingMatches {
 		// Search the description if we found non-contiguous key matches at best.
 		const hasContiguousKeyMatchTypes = this.matchType >= SettingMatchType.ContiguousWordsInSettingsLabel;
 		if (this.searchDescription && !hasContiguousKeyMatchTypes) {
+			// Search the description lines and any additional search terms.
+			const searchableLines = setting.searchTerms?.length
+				? [...setting.description, setting.searchTerms.join(' ')]
+				: setting.description;
 			for (const word of queryWords) {
-				// Search the description lines.
-				for (let lineIndex = 0; lineIndex < setting.description.length; lineIndex++) {
-					const descriptionMatches = matchesBaseContiguousSubString(word, setting.description[lineIndex]);
+				for (let lineIndex = 0; lineIndex < searchableLines.length; lineIndex++) {
+					const descriptionMatches = matchesBaseContiguousSubString(word, searchableLines[lineIndex]);
 					if (descriptionMatches?.length) {
 						descriptionMatchingWords.set(word, descriptionMatches.map(match => this.toDescriptionRange(setting, match, lineIndex)));
 					}

src/vs/workbench/services/preferences/common/preferences.ts

@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ export interface ISetting {
 	value: any;
 	valueRange: IRange;
 	description: string[];
+	searchTerms?: string[];
 	descriptionIsMarkdown?: boolean;
 	descriptionRanges: IRange[];
 	overrides?: ISetting[];

src/vs/workbench/services/preferences/common/preferencesModels.ts

@@ -723,6 +723,7 @@ export class DefaultSettings extends Disposable {
 			value,
 			description: descriptionLines,
 			descriptionIsMarkdown: !!prop.markdownDescription,
+			searchTerms: prop.searchTerms,
 			range: nullRange,
 			keyRange: nullRange,
 			valueRange: nullRange,