Regularly run analysis in the background

[marinaglancy]

This is a feature mentioned in the vscode issue microsoft/vscode#13953 (comment)

I just wanted to create an issue in my repository so we can discuss it here.

For starter I want to say that I do not currently know how to do it without disturbing the normal work process. In order to trigger the diagnostics analysis there should be an event notifying other extensions that they need to analyse the file. They usually listen to "file opened" or "file edited" events . And the way VSCode works is that it unloads the problems if the file was opened a long time ago but was not interacted with.

"Bulk problem diagnostics" has to bring such files to the foreground and it will shift a focus from the currently edited file, which makes it impossible to run in the background

[ADTC]

From what I noticed, it switches to files that are already open (but otherwise don't visually open them). So a periodic run in the current workflow would definitely be a disturbance to the user.

I think this isn't very urgent, and if there is no easy solution, it's alright to not have any.

You can consider adding an optional status bar button to invoke the analysis manually, and perhaps to control some options like severity level quickly from its context menu.