Watch variable window not wrapping lines

[romanchyla]

Variable view cannot wrap lines - especially for string, the most information is at the very end of the value -- effectively hidden.

• Variables view serves very important role for interactive debugging.
• The debugger allows us to pause machine execution and explore the current stack - literally "explore the land".

For efficient exploration, that information needs to easily accessible (i.e. visible) - IDEs traditionally are doing good job there.

It would be actually awesome to make this part of VSCode even smarter -- but having lines wrapped (witth some configurable max). But even simpler logic, such as displaying the rightmost end of the value i.e. ../.backup/.classpath/.factoryPath.replaced.20210321 instead of /home/some/location/... -- would be an improvement.

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Workarounds that were proposed:

1. hover over the variable with mouse
2. move the variable view to the bottom

Outcomes (for some of us):

1. is too slow and flow disrupting - if you have been touch typing, then you know what it means to use all ten fingers compared to folks who need to look at a keyboard, grab mouse, move cursor...
2. is only a workaround - some important things are in that space, for example terminal, suggesting that one moves variables there because VSCode is unable to wrap a line is also somewhat arbitrary (does function follow form or form follows the function?)

Similar issues have been opened in 2019, then in 2022 - for their history, please see:

• Wrap content in variables and watch views #141665

• Wrap content in variables and watch views #81275

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[miki5799]

I'd like to bump that this issue persists in the debug console as well and is not limited to the watch variable view.

See screenshot below:

[ah3243]

definitely would be a good feature, especially when checking prompts which are often over the limit that the text is clipped when you just hover over the variable. It'd save alot of time and make it much easier than copy pasting or printing it out.

[GoGoris]

I would also like to add my vote to this change request because it is currently virtually impossible to read a long string such as a sql query in debug mode without logging it: