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alefragnani / vscode-bookmarks

Bookmarks Extension for Visual Studio Code
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[FEATURE] - Idea for a vs code extension #459

Closed Nisthar closed 2 years ago

Nisthar commented 3 years ago

Hi,

This is not related to the bookmarks features. But I have this new idea for a vs code extension. It could be a lot helpful to a lot of developers i think. It should be easy to implement too.

its basically an extension that instead of commenting out codes in your project files. you can just select the code that you want to comment and use the extension to remove the code and put like a pin (with label) in the sidebar where you can restore it later if you want.

This would minimizes a lot of unwanted codes and also you can review and restore codes later from the sidebar.

alefragnani commented 3 years ago

Hi @Nisthar ,

Do you mean something like the Folding feature in VS Code? It doesn't hide the source code (the source code is still there), but simply collapses the lines in the editor where the Folding refers too. Depending on the language you use, it may be defined by comment like syntaxes.

But, what do you mean about new idea for a vs code extension? Are you willing to develop and need some help/guidance, or do you need someone to do it?

Hope this helps

Nisthar commented 3 years ago

Hi @alefragnani

Yeah its similar to code folding. But with the ability to completely remove the code and restore it whenever the author wants to from the sidebar.

I think this is better than commenting out code which makes the code unreadable and hard to manage. I hope someone else who are passionate about the idea to work on it.

fade2gray commented 3 years ago

It sounds like you want something like a clipboard manager that can remember the file and exact location to restore the clip, regardless of any further changes you make to your code.

alefragnani commented 3 years ago

Thanks @fade2gray , I totally agree. A Clipboard Manager seems the perfect concept, because you want to complete remove the code, not hide, like folding.

A quick search at Marketplace (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?term=clipboard&target=VSCode&category=All%20categories&sortBy=Relevance) reveals a few Clipboard related extensions. I suggest you to look at those to find out which one better works for you. Maybe it's already available.

Hope this helps

alefragnani commented 3 years ago

If you don't find any, maybe we could chat...