API for hiding characters in a file

[keyvan-m-sadeghi]

Following a discussion with @bpasero, I'm proposing an extensibility API here. I'm willing to work on a PR toward creating this API if someone points me at a starting direction.

Use case

I want my extension to parse js files and hide (not delete) the visual clutter of opening and closing braces ({ and }) with a button located in the status bar (next to TabSize, etc.). I'd later want the extension to add any missing braces to the file based on the indent.

API

I need to be able to tell VSCode to hide specified (line/column start + offset) characters or lines (line number) in a file open in the editor.

[jrieken]

cc @aeschli as this touches on folding

[aeschli]

We'd need the editor to be able hiding arbitrarily ranges of the document. Currently, only full lines can be hidden.
Only then we start discussing APIs, likely as part of the folding API.

[keyvan-m-sadeghi]

@aeschli what is the API for hiding full lines?

[aeschli]

It's an internal API, to be used only by folding, see https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/9b25468ef0dcc9c422bf919166de0dec95719611/src/vs/editor/contrib/folding/folding.ts#L242

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