[folding] Fold selection

[bbofdoom]

In Visual Studio by doing Ctrl+M followed by Ctrl+H we were able to fold ANY regions in a code.
Could we please have an equivalent feature in Code. Thanks may God bless the dev team!

[dbaeumer]

@alexandrudima FYI.

[jeff-hykin]

I think this feature request includes character-based (rather than line-based) code folding;
ex:
before folding:

after folding:

And I just wanted to point out that if this kind of feature were added, then myself and others could likely start working on extensions to handle these issues:

• [folding] language-aware folding #3422 Language-Aware Folding
• [folding] define custom collapse pattarens #29890 Custom Collapse Patterns
• [folding] fold regions #12146 Fold Regions

And likely some other issues as well.

[JBrace1990]

+1 for this feature request. It's one of the more annoying things things I've found by switching over to this IDE than NuSphere PHPEd.

[coodoo]

Any update on this?

[paulomunoz]

This would be indeed a very useful feature! I'm actually wondering if this is available in any other editors, apart from Visual Studio?

[ghost]

@paulomunoz: I'm not sure whether this is exactly what @bbofdoom is requesting but Atom has something that's, at least, similar (from https://flight-manual.atom.io/using-atom/sections/folding/):

Finally, you can fold arbitrary sections of your code or text by making a selection and then typing Alt+Cmd+Ctrl+F or choosing "Fold Selection" in the Command Palette.

[ackvf]

Of course Sublime Text also has this for ages.

[MartinJHammer]

I'd love to see this feature as well :)

BTW I love visual studio code. The dev team is an inspiration.

[wzup]

What is shortcuts for that? Does folding selection exist already in VSCode?

[andersennl]

It's one and a half years after this feature request has been opened, is there any progress on this? I think it's actually kind of unusual for an editor to not have this as a feature, so I'd like to give a +1 for this.

I mainly use RubyMine for my daily work and use cmd + and cmd - to unfold/fold region wise and cmd shift + and cmd shift - to unfold/fold the whole file.

[BinaryShrub]

I'd like this as well

[tomatau]

This is a fairly basic feature, please add

[bjoe88]

Badly need this. Please add

[peterallcdn]

Back to coding after taking many years off. I've only been using VS Code for a week or so and already I see the need for this feature. Please add it, thanks!

[Inversion-des]

This feature is really needed. Cannot switch to VS Code without this (

[tony-thomas-git]

Adding my vote for this feature. Great code folding includes folding selection(s).

[iladin]

Adding my vote as well, looking to hide lines that begin with a REGEX

[AerionDyseti]

Adding another vote for this feature; folding statements within a mustache template.

[julesgilson]

so many less important features released each month... and still not this fairly basic one!

[coconewty]

Please add this feature! It makes such a difference and is something that I really miss after switching from Sublime to VS Code.

[Tiedye]

#50840 is required to implement this

[hanselmandrew]

Bump +1

[psycoxer]

need this feature baked in to vs code. but this extension does the trick : #region

[eliumoraes]

I was looking for this feature. Using Datagrip I can fold part of my queries. Can't believe that code really does not has this function.

[zhouyc98]

Really really really need this feature!

BTW, I don't think this feature request includes character-based (rather than line-based) code folding as @jeff-hykin mentioned.
Actually, this feature can be considered as folding all the selection lines, rather than characters. Maybe it will make the implementation easier.

[dwall60]

I've been using SlickEdit for some time and it's a great editor but I decided to try VS Code since I'm tired of paying maintenance on SlickEdit. SlickEdit can fold on ANY regex pattern, and it's a line fold, not a character fold. It's called Selective Display.

This is an extremely beneficial feature for me because I review log files from embedded devices a LOT and it's great to collapse the log file based on a regex so I can see a pattern emerge when looking for specifically logged items.

VS Code appears to be very flexibile, but I was very disappointed when I found that it couldn't do this.

Also, it seems kind of silly to me to have to put #region, #pragma region, etc in the code to get it to fold when you could just use a regex to easily fold on anything.

[aeschli]

@dwall60 Thanks for the feedback. Would you mind filing a separate issue that also shows a bit how this works in SlickEdit. I'm curious to know how users provide the regexes and how the regexes look like (one regex for the whole region, or separate start end regexes)

[commadelimited]

I'll add my vote for this feature as well. Language aware folding might be nice, but just let me fold abritrary lines and you've got a solution already. I want to collapse, into a single line, every unit test in my file but for the one I'm working on. I want to collapse every controller method but for the one I'm working on. It's not enough to be able to collapse the functions themselves because that still displays the method signature.

[yubaoquan]

Three years... this issue still open.

[RaptorX]

came to post a request and found this issue laying around still :(
wont even bother.

[igorcmelo]

Sadly it stills open

[NotWearingPants]

Inline folding is here: #50840

[Nice2Work]

Yes please, I do not think there is one cursor move I do all day, and that is putting at the begin and than CTRL + [, while I would love to just select and CTRL + whatever to do all parts folding that can be folded into each their own...
But I am afraid we are talking to some deaf ears as this is already requested ....> 3 years now?

[Nick-Hopps]

How to fold/unfold selected contents？seems that folding/unfolding only works on the specific region or the whole document.

[exquisitesteve1]

I would like this feature too

[yayayahahaha]

Any update?
I'm trying to migrate from SublimeText to VSCode, but it seems both of them just can't replace another.

[tjx666]

Sometime would be very helpful with this.

[jeff-hykin]

After 5 years of waiting, I'm glad to see the update. Thanks @aeschli!

[yayayahahaha]

So exciting to see this feature!

[commadelimited]

Thanks @aeschli! Do you have an idea of when this will actually be released? I can't wait to use it.

Kudos to all your hard work (and to whomever else was involved).

[eliumoraes]

Thank you very much! Never believed that would be released. I'm grateful! Thanks again!

[Tiedye]

The feature doesn't seem to work as it does in the referenced apps. If I select a range in one line it doesn't do anything, folding part way through a line also doesn't work. It only seems to be able to collapse whole lines

[aeschli]

Yes. we still only support folding full lines, not subranges. So you need to select the lines to fold.