Allow WorkspaceEditMetadata to control whether changes are grouped by label by default

[DanTup]

Using WorkspaceEditEntryMetadata (to set needsConfirmation) requires setting a string label on the changes, but by default these labels are not visible in the UI. You have to explicitly toggle on grouping:

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It would be nice if we could set the default behaviour on the WorkspaceMetadata because some kinds of edits are much better grouped together (for example fixing multiple lints in a single action, grouped by lint name).

VS Code's LSP client is already telling servers that changes will be grouped (although the spec is a bit vague about whether this is default or just an option):

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-languageserver-node/blob/691fd5d3fabeed5ed8ff9c3608f2d306cb07717e/client/src/common/client.ts#L1837

[vs-code-engineering]

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Happy Coding!

[vs-code-engineering]

🙂 This feature request received a sufficient number of community upvotes and we moved it to our backlog. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

Happy Coding!