[folding] allow defining folding regions in user settings and/or extensions

Would it be able to abstract out the language specifics and treat code folding similar to how emmet handles it… i.e.

    "emmet.includeLanguages": {
        "php": "html",
        "blade": "html",
        "javascript": "javascriptreact"
    },

So for code folding it could be…

    "codeFolding.IncludeLanguages": {
        "php": {
            "openTag": "//#region",
            "closeTage": "//#endregion"
        },
        ...etc...
    }

This is just an off the cuff idea for implementing this and I’m not sure that it’s possible, but the goal would be to not be dependent on the language plugin developers to implement the feature.

[costincaraivan]

This is a sort of +1 comment. Please expose these settings directly in the user settings so that we don’t have to go mucking about with PRs for each and every language.

See also my comment from the Vim issue. Ideally there would also be a catch-all folding marker for all the files that don’t necessarily have a plugin, so that you can still get folding even if VS Code does not have explicit support for the specific file type.

Something like:

"codeFolding.IncludeLanguages": {
        "*": {  // Maybe use "any" or "all" instead of just "*" as the wildcard?
            "openTag": "//#region",
            "closeTag": "//#endregion"
        },
        ...etc...
 }

This helps with the use case of using VS Code as a generic editor, a replacement for Notepad++, Sublime Text, Vim, etc.

[Ptiloup]

Is it possible to add to javascript-language-configuration.json the “editor-fold” tag ?

"folding": {
	"markers": {
		"start": "^\\s*//\\s*(?:(?:#?region\\b)|(?:<editor-fold\\b))",
		"end": "^\\s*//\\s*(?:(?:#?endregion\\b)|(?:</editor-fold>))"
	}
}