Issue #77  (Custom Folded Regions)10/11/23

As you no doubt have noticed, when looking at some code in VS Code, your editor will automatically created what's called "folded regions". You can see any available folded region when you hover over the line number area in your editor, as indicated in the screenshot below.
 
This, of course, happens naturally for specific coding features, generally indicating where nesting occurs. The above example is 'folding' under HTML tags that contain content and other tags.

But as a brief reminder, don't forget that you can create your own folded regions by using the shortcut CTRL+k followed by CTRL+comma (or CMD+k followed by CMD+comma on a mac). Simply select the lines you want to 'fold' then hit the shortcut or use the command palette to search for the command "Create Folding Range from Selection".
 
You can then remove the custom folded region using the similar shortcut CTRL/CMD+k followed by CTRL/CMD+dot (that is, the "." or period key).

And again, this can also be triggered via the command palette if you happen to forget the keyboard shortcut. Just search for "folding ranges", which also gives you the option to choose to "Go to Next Folding Range" and "Go to Previous Folding Range", if that's a form of code navigation that you think might be helpful for you.
 
Custom folding ranges might be useful in programming languages where there isn't support for folding or just any block of code that doesn't get naturally folded but might be somewhat lengthy and difficult to navigate through (e.g. a long list of meta tags in your HTML's head section).

Now on to this week's hand-picked links!
 

VS Code Tools

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GhostText — A browser extension that connects to your text editor or IDE to use your editor or IDE to write in your browsers. Supports VS Code, Sublime Text, Vim, Neovim, and others.

VS Code Articles & Videos

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Bun 1.0 setup for Windows with VSCode and Docker — One developer's foray into using Bun, which isn't quite ready for Windows, but using Docker to bridge that gap.

Best of the Rest

Rapidpages — A prompt-first IDE for building React and Tailwind components using AI.

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Suggestions?

If you have any link suggestions, including a tool, article, or other resources related to VS Code or another IDE, send it via DM on X: @LouisLazaris or just hit reply on this email.

That's it for this issue.

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