Minimap and Syntaxes - A means of distinguishing between code folding and region markers/headers

[sancarn]

#190759 added headers wherever there is a region. Correct me if I'm wrong, but regions are also the only way to define code-folding.

As a result some language extensions which have enabled regions on loops (for collapsability) now have minimap markers, making the map look quite cluttered:

Might be worth being able to distinguish in syntax between regions for folding, and markers for minimap.

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[spartanatreyu]

Aren't regions supposed to be manually defined by the programmer and not by an extension?

[sancarn]

That may well have been the intention but currently the following:

    "folding": {
        "markers": {
            "start": "^\\s*(Private|Protected|Friend|Public|Sub|Function|If|While|Do|For|Loop)\\b",
            "end": "^\\s*(End|Next|Wend)\\b"
        }
    },

is adding to the minimap, where I imagine it really shouldn't be...

[ian-h-chamberlain]

I think related to this are #219561 and #209904 — since the section headers are defined by the language configuration, perhaps customizing the tags would be sufficient to workaround this, if the editor.minimap.sectionHeaderDetectionRegExp regex didn't match?

Even if that feature is accepted, it does seem like there should be a way to control the different header types:

• MARK: (now: hardcoded, possible future: sectionHeaderDetectionRegExp matches)
• folding.markers in language-configuration.json. This seems to affect some languages more than others, maybe due to some other regex matching?

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[sancarn]

I think related to this are #219561 and #209904 — since the section headers are defined by the language configuration, perhaps customizing the tags would be sufficient to workaround this, if the editor.minimap.sectionHeaderDetectionRegExp regex didn't match?

Even if that feature is accepted, it does seem like there should be a way to control the different header types:

• MARK: (now: hardcoded, possible future: sectionHeaderDetectionRegExp matches)
• folding.markers in language-configuration.json. This seems to affect some languages more than others, maybe due to some other regex matching?

Yeah I think you're right, thanks for the headsup :)

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