Qt Creator has a really nice feature where based on the cursor location, they change the background color of the rest of the buffer to make it easy to see the block of code one is working in. They have two levels of highlighting - please see picture.
I've been trying to recreate this in VSCode but with no luck.
I tried various VSCode settings and they don't seem to scope down to the block.
Blockman is visually very noisy i.e. I'd really like to have the lines have the background changed.
Blockman is visually very noisy
Hello, author of Blockman here. Blockman has so many configurations that can be used to reduce the noisy visual of default Blockman behavior. You can hide all blocks and show only the focused block. Also you can show +-1 or +-2 or +-3 ..... depth blocks from the focused block, or from the ground block, or both. Also you can hide all backgrounds and show only borders. And there are also many more settings. Please see the GIF instructions and textual instructions on Blockman page:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=leodevbro.blockman
Also this instruction is useful:
Tutorial - Blockman - How to show only focused block
https://github.com/leodevbro/vscode-blockman/issues/97
If you still have some difficulties, feel free to reach me on GitHub or here or anywhere and I'll try to help you with your specific preferences.
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I use markdown headers to navigate in notebooks but I also tend to make a lot of (non-header) markdown notes. Both show up in the outline which makes finding the right heading quite difficult as notebooks grow large.
Is there a way to suppress plain markdown cells showing up in the outline?
I have followed the discussion on github and at Creating Table of Contents in VS code Jupyter Notebook
the author of one answer was also not satisfied with the outline feature and created jupyter TOC extension, and at some point, I also ended up using it. This has an option to exclude text from visualization (I believe it is possible to set maximum expansion level), but I still consider the outline more desireable, because it stays visible when I scroll the document, which I consider essential.
The workaround I found is to put, when possible, text in the same cell as the header. This makes it easier to keep the outline clean, and just avoiding to expand too much the outline works decently for me, even if it implies some annoying restrictions on the way you structure text. Other than that, it is possible to play with the collapse/expand feature of the outline and get a sufficient control, even if the possibility of completely exclude the text is still a desireable upgrade.
For a half year now, I carry an innovative idea for a modern way of code editing. I just realized what Visual Studio Code extensions are already capable of and made me wonder.
The idea is that a real time code render mode for code editors where code is visualized like rendered documentation (for example Doxygen). Non-commented lines of code are displayed like collapsable codeblocks and documentation comments are displayed as the surrounding markdown/HTML/LaTeX document.
This rendered view still can be edited and navigated in same way as the classic text view so that new graphical elements appear after typing them as text into a comment. Therefore, rich interactive documentation reading (like hiding/showing parts, jumping across locations with hyperlinks) and code editing would be combined into one activity without time needed for switching between both or mapping Documentation with actual code locations. Different from the original literate programming idea, the file's physical content is unchanged and doesn't complicate the process or source code reading.
It's conceptually how Moodle text editors work (HTML code view and render view) or like using a graphical word processor to visualize source code instead of a single monospace text. Of course, the cursor would move along lines in their visually presented order and not in their file's actual order.
Do you know, if such a real time render mode is possible in VSCode?
Did someone had such an idea and made an extension?
btw:
This "render mode" idea is actually quite generic and could be used as general customizable GUI technology that would allow GUI elements to be navigated, edited via an underlying text representation.
I am writing a small tools for VS Code and the tool will need to draw arrows between symbols in the code.
Something along these lines.
Please forgive my skills with Paint.
What it is the best way to achieve this effect in VS Code?
What you want is not possible. The editor output in vscode is a list of DOM nodes (divs for the lines, spans for the syntactic elements). You cannot draw lines between DOM nodes.
If you had full control over the editor you could add an overlay over the entire text to draw the lines, but then you have to take care not to disturb the normal behavior of the editor and, after all, you don't have that kind of control.
A webview is not a good approach, as it would not only require to duplicate the work the normal editor does, it's also isolated and has no direct access to the main application, which means actions, language server support etc. don't work
yes sure use this Rainbow Brackets
its draw an arrow between the start and the end .
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I'm not sure if this is a good place for this question, but I did see a similar question posted here on overflow.
I'm just getting started with Eclipse as an IDE and having difficulty finding a comments toggle. I'd like to completely hide them sometimes. I've seen suggestions that would allow me to collapse entire comment blocks to a single line, but I'd want to hide ALL comments (single lines, blocks, etc) like in visual studio as a comparison. The goal is to gain the screen space to see more actual code simultaneously.
Anyone know of a way, plugin or otherwise?
Thanks!
This might be a bad way of doing it but you could set the syntax highlight for comments to be the same as your background color.
Is there any way to mark Matlab code (in Matlab) via some kind of add-on? I'm looking for something similar to what Microsoft Word has with its "Review" mode where you can highlight a certain phrase/section and make a comment on the side. When I say "comment", I don't mean the regular code comments that you do with "%" in Matab.
I've googled for this, but I couldn't find anything. Anyone know if something like this exists that I may have missed? It would really help me when I'm reading someone else's code and I have to keep track of things / make comments for certain lines. Even if commenting isn't possible, it would be nice to be able to highlight certain lines via some kind of "highlighter" like the one in Word.
No. This isn't possible.
In fact, most editors and IDEs (if not ALL of them) that I know don't even support this feature as each IDE will have to be specific in the way this is implemented (à la Trojanian). The only thing that I can think of is if you print out the code in PDF, then use bubbles within the PDF viewer to tack on your comments.
However, if you want to highlight a specific line in your editor, you'll have to set this up in your settings. Go to preferences, then in the Editor / Debugger options, choose the Display option, then choose Highlight Current Line. Choose whichever colour you see fit. I'm running MATLAB R2013a on Mac OS, and this is the window I get:
You'll see the Highlight Current Line feature. Change that to whichever colour you want. I have it as gray because I do like having the current line highlighted.