Add setting to default to recursive directory collapsing

[Lancear]

Closes #224267 - Always collapse directories recursively

[Lancear]

@microsoft-github-policy-service agree

[thennothinghappened]

It would seem redundant to me to have the Alt behaviour remain as-is when this is enabled - why not have this option swap which behaviour requires Alt? That'd mean with recursive-as-default enabled, holding Alt would then cause a non-recursive collapse, whereas with this option disabled, the inverse is true.

[Lancear]

I like that suggestion! Just to clarify the behaviour, could you please let me know if this is what you were thinking?

Current default behaviour:

• collapse: collapses the single folder
• open: opens the single folder
• ALT collapse: collapses the folder recursively
• ALT open: opens the folders recursively (seems to memorize the previously opened folders)

Video (collapse, open, ALT collapse, open, collapse, ALT open)

Settings.-.Pulse.-.Code.-.Oss.Dev.2025-01-06.14-13-33.mp4

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My current implementation of the setting simply changes collapse to do the same as ALT collapse when enabled.

By inverting ALT for collapse we would do the following:

• collapse: collapses the folder recursively
• open: opens the single folder
• ALT collapse: collapses the single folder
• ALT open: opens the folders recursively (seems to memorize the previously opened folders)

Opening folders would stay the same as it wouldn't make much sense to always open the folders recursively again.

Is that correct?

[Amertyping]

sudo cp -f ~/ufw.backup/*rules /etc/ufw

[thennothinghappened]

By inverting ALT for collapse we would do the following:

• collapse: collapses the folder recursively
• open: opens the single folder
• ALT collapse: collapses the single folder
• ALT open: opens the folders recursively (seems to memorize the previously opened folders)

Opening folders would stay the same as it wouldn't make much sense to always open the folders recursively again.

Is that correct?

Yep! That's pretty much what I had in mind.

[Lancear]

@joaomoreno What do we need to do to get this merged? Thanks in advance for the info!

[RIP21]

I will be super happy if this lands the editor. I was mega surprised it's not customizable.

[coredumperror]

Hope this gets reviewed for approval ASAP. Absolutely key feature that I miss dearly from PyCharm. Makes me very confused when opening a folder and I find that some of its children are also open. My brain just doesn't expect that.