[FEATURE] - Add separator with comment

[shayded-exe]

It would be really nice to be able to specify a comment string that will add a separator.

My use case is code cad scripts in Python. Some of these functions are quite long and can't be broken up into smaller functions. I would like to be able to add a comment like # --- (configurable via settings) that inserts a separator.

It would be even cooler if you could specify a dictionary of string -> color mappings.

[alefragnani]

Hi @shayded-exe ,

If I understand correctly, if seems you would like to have separators for comments that follow a pattern not Symbols (functions, classes, etc). Am I right?

Thank you

[shayded-exe]

@alefragnani Correct, yes

[alefragnani]

Have you looked some comment related extension, like Better Comments, Comment Styler, or others, support this? I mean, I think this feature would better fit on some comment related extension.

I say this mainly because Separators extension was created with focus on symbols, and rely entirely on the language extension to detect those symbols. The comment related extensions, on the other hand, focus on comments, and already has parsing and recognition of it inside the text.

[shayded-exe]

Those extensions should work. I didn't realize that everything currently relied on the LSP so I get it that adding a text parsing component would be antithetical to the design goals.

[alefragnani]

There is nothing antithetical to the design goals on adding such feature, it's just a matter of extension's objective and available engines.

To add separators to comments, it would be required to add a new text parsing engine and a new color mapping. Those extensions, being focused on comments, already provides proper text parsing engines and I think they could improve their decorations with separator like lines easily.

It could be added here? Maybe yes. But I think it would be easier on those extensions.