Exercise 2: Jump Without the Explorer — Possible Solution ==================================================================== STEPS ------------------------------ 1. Make sure a folder with at least 3 files is open (File -> Open Folder, per Chapter 1, if one isn't already). 2. Press Ctrl+P (Cmd+P on macOS) to open Quick Open. 3. Type just a few letters from the middle or end of a filename you want to open — for example, typing "eadme" (not the full "readme.md") should still match README.md, since Quick Open uses the same fuzzy matching as the Command Palette, not an exact prefix match. 4. Press Enter (or click the highlighted result) to open that file directly in the Editor Group. 5. Repeat for a second, different file — notice the Explorer's Side Bar never needed to be opened or clicked at all during this whole process. WHAT TO NOTE ------------------------------ Quick Open searches file NAMES specifically, not file contents — a search for a word that only appears inside a file's text won't find it here (that's a job for the search feature covered in Chapter 3). Also worth noticing: recently opened files tend to surface first in Quick Open's results even before typing anything, since it's biased toward your recent editing history. WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ This directly exercises the chapter's own description of Quick Open as "a fuzzy search over every file in your currently open folder" — completing the whole file-opening task using Ctrl+P alone proves the Explorer tree-clicking approach from Chapter 1 is optional once you're comfortable with keyboard-first navigation, not the only way to get to a file.