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alefragnani / vscode-separators

Separators Extension for Visual Studio Code
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[FEATURE] - Add Support for "Type" symbols #23

Open colelawrence opened 3 years ago

colelawrence commented 3 years ago

In many places such as in the case of discriminated unions, we use types as a top-level concept. It would be very helpful to include those boundaries in the separators.

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You can see from this screenshot, that types are reported to the outline view, so it might be relatively easy to add this feature.

alefragnani commented 3 years ago

Hi @colelawrence ,

I understand your request and I agree it would be a great improvement, but unfortunately VS Code doesn't recognize InputDefinition as a Type.

If you use the Command Palette an run the Go to Symbols command, and type :, it will group the symbols by its kind. When you find the InputDefinition symbol you will notice it doesn't belong to a Type group, but Variables instead. VS Code has a set of kinds its support (https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/vscode-api#SymbolKind) and Types is not one of them.

So, unless VS Code expands its symbol kinds to have a Type kind, there is no way to identify when a Type is found.

Hope this helps