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

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First steps

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  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. 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

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