Collapse first comment

[mrx23dot]

Type: Feature Request

Eclipse has this neat feature where it collapses the first comment in C/C++ files.

Comments can be

/*  */  multiline
/**  */ multiline
// many lines like this
///  many lines like this

Usually they are a mile long version/disclaimer comments.
It would be silly to create a new addon just for this, so this would be a nice little addition to this addon.

Extension version: 1.17.5
VS Code version: Code 1.73.1 (6261075646f055b99068d3688932416f2346dd3b, 2022-11-09T04:27:29.066Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045
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[sean-mcmanus]

You can manually collapse the comment.

I assume it would be a setting that is settable per workspace folder, since only a subset of code bases have unimportant comments at the start of files, and other code bases might have important comments at the top.

[sean-mcmanus]

Unfortunately, our extension isn't able to implement this until the VS Code issue microsoft/vscode#40338 is addressed, so you can upvote that issue.

[mrx23dot]

Thank for linking this,

they say it's already done:

and you need to set "editor.foldingImportsByDefault": true
although it's about folding imports but the logic could be same.

Or there is a logic for this binding
ctrl + K ctrl + 1 - editor.foldLevel1
cannot we reuse that?

[mrx23dot]

You can manually collapse the comment.

I assume it would be a setting that is settable per workspace folder, since only a subset of code bases have unimportant comments at the start of files, and other code bases might have important comments at the top.

In professional environment C files start with doxygen, and long license disclaimers, if we open 100s of them per day it's highly appreciated to collapse them, of course it's not for everyone, that's why it could be a setting.
Again it's a standard Eclipse function:

Or lets say you know the code base, and work in it daily, surely you don't want to scroll that much every time.

[mrx23dot]

Never mind there is an addon for it
Fold on Open