diff --git a/extensions/search-result/package.json b/extensions/search-result/package.json
index 1e5c3df2077..747cde8e648 100644
--- a/extensions/search-result/package.json
+++ b/extensions/search-result/package.json
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@
   ],
   "main": "./out/extension.js",
   "browser": "./dist/extension.js",
-  "activationEvents": [],
+  "activationEvents": [
+    "onLanguage:search-result"
+  ],
   "scripts": {
     "generate-grammar": "node ./syntaxes/generateTMLanguage.js",
     "vscode:prepublish": "node ../../node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js --gulpfile ../../build/gulpfile.extensions.js compile-extension:search-result ./tsconfig.json"