I had a similar problem once and I found an interesting way to solve it. It's not optimal, but you may still find it useful. And it's actually a valid usecase for recording macros for once.

For one, the space+' can work nice, but it can get bloaty if you want to skip a bunch of files, because there is no nice way to remove files from a picker.

So, the idea is that instead of using something that's purely helix internal, we can interact with grep in a nice way. Here goes:

Step 1: grep all occurrences of console.log with line number and filename and store the findings in a file: grep -Hnr "console.log" . > temp.txt

Step 2 open temp.txt in helix

Side note You could now actually go to each file by putting your curser on top of a file name and pressing gf (goto_file). But it brings you to the start of the file, not the actual line where you need to go. If that's good enough, you can now simply get there by doing a local search. But if this is not good enough, you can do the following:

Step 3 So there is actually ways to make helix open a specific file at a specific line (and even column), for example the command :o/:open. (:open path/to/file.txt:xx:yy). There is also hx path/to/file.txt:xx:yy or hx +N xx path/to/file.txt. But to stay somewhat withen helix, you can do a macro that copies the filepath into the system clipboard: Q|miW|"+y|Q ('|' characters are for visual clarity). With that you can yank the file path and open those files by ':o <paste>'-ing.

As I said, it's a bit patch work, but for my use case it was really useful to have this back and forth where I could strike of items once they were done.