[folding] fold regions

[mbeckenbach]

Use markers such as //#region and //#endregion to mark folding regions

[waderyan]

@mbeckenbach can you provide more information of what you are looking for? I am not familiar with //#region support.

Also, is this VS Code specific or is this a feature request for TypeScript? This may be better in TypeScript.

[mbeckenbach]

The full visual studio uses comments to mark code blocks as collapsable in all languages. Depending on the language, the syntax is slightly different as the comment syntax is different.

Hard to explain, but web essentials has a nice screenshot of regions in the javascript area: http://vswebessentials.com/features/javascript

Regions should exist for all languages. The comment syntax is different but the result schould be the same.

[divieirasilva]

I think, @mbeckenbach are talking about the #region, current present on c# syntax of Visual Studio. Currently, on C#, #region name_region is used to tell where code will start folding and #endregion tells where code will stop folding.
I'm really missing this feature on VS Code as well, all my code have regions for better code reading and on VSCode I can't fold my regions.

e.g.

#region region_sample

void MyDummyMethod()
{
int a = 1 + 1;
}

void MyDummyMethod2()
{
int b = 1 + 1;
}

#endregion

In the sample above, the entire region block should fold and "region_sample" should be the label on folding.

[mbeckenbach]

yes, that's what i'm talking about. i'm really missing that feature in other languages like for example ts

[waderyan]

This issue was moved to microsoft/TypeScript#11073

[freebrevik]

@waderyan Not trying to step on any toes here... but just curious why this issue would be moved to Typescript, isn't regions purely aesthetic? That seems like something the Editor should be handling not the language.

As others have mentioned this is great for large code bases, obviously its better when you can split things across multiple files but that's not always the case in large projects without adding even more unnecessary complexity.

[waderyan]

@awdogsgo2heaven thank you for your comment. You may be correct and I have been meaning to come back and reopen this issue on our end to gather more feedback from VS Code users.