Microsoft/vscode

[folding] Show number of lines folded

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#130,250 opened on Aug 6, 2021

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Description

Current when a block is folded it currently only show ellipses, which I think it could be improved by show the lines of code in the block.

e.g. (using Python as an example)

def printthis(printme):
    print(printme)
    print("how did it print?")

When the code above is folded, it is represented as:

def printthis(printme): ...

Instead of just "...", it would be very useful to display how many lines are folded.

def printthis(printme): ...(2 lines)...

With short block it is not too difficult to identify the number lines folded by looking at the line number, but for a larger blocks, it would aid significantly by showing the number of line folded.

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Research direction
Investigate how VSCode renders folded code. Look for the mechanism that replaces folded lines with ellipsis and modify it to include the line count. The relevant code is likely in the editor rendering layer, possibly in the 'editor/contrib/folding' or similar directory.
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typescript
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