Microsoft/vscode

Shift + click the item in Outline view to select the related code (function, var...)

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#149,034 opened on May 8, 2022

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Description

It would be nice if we could have a possibility to quickly select the whole functions. In the text editor that I have used it is double-click on the item in the functions panel which allows that.

However, since double-click action in the Outline view is reserved in VSCode for giving focus to the editor, I suggest that you implement Shift+click on the item in the Outline view for selecting the full code of functions. Or, if you do that on the item that represents the definition of var/const, then the line with that definition could be selected.

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Research direction
Investigate the Outline view's click event handling in the VS Code codebase. Find the code that handles double click (which gives focus to editor) and extend it to handle shift+click for selecting the related code block.
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typescript
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