microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript
Auto split strings if press enter in a string literal
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Description
Suggestion
🔍 Search Terms
string, editor
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✅ Viability Checklist
My suggestion meets these guidelines:
- This wouldn't be a breaking change in existing TypeScript/JavaScript code
- This wouldn't change the runtime behavior of existing JavaScript code
- This could be implemented without emitting different JS based on the types of the expressions
- This isn't a runtime feature (e.g. library functionality, non-ECMAScript syntax with JavaScript output, new syntax sugar for JS, etc.)
- This feature would agree with the rest of TypeScript's Design Goals.
⭐ Suggestion
Improve the experience of string literal edit.
📃 Motivating Example
let str = 'a very very /*cursor*/very long string'
Press Enter at cursor.
let str = 'a very very ' +
'very long string'
And should not provide this in template literal.
💻 Use Cases
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. Start from the motivating TypeScript example and compare the requested Enter behavior in ordinary string literals with the stated exclusion for template literals; done means the editor splits the string as shown without changing runtime behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, typescript
- Domain
- developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100