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Navigating sequences of mappings by property value
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Description
Discussed in https://github.com/redhat-developer/vscode-yaml/discussions/862
Originally posted by cutecycle December 28, 2022
I was wondering: is this a thing that makes sense to want, or should I rethink my schema?
Say I have a file that is a list of objects:
- name: do the thing
priority: 0
- name: do the other thing
priority: 1
If I want to navigate to "do the thing," I'd have to Ctrl-F since the outline just shows the list with no other information:


Though the property value is listed in the outline

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
Start by reading the original issue and the linked discussion #862 to understand the expected outline behavior for sequences of mappings. The work is done when users can identify and navigate to list items by a property value, with the intended behavior agreed and verified in the VS Code outline.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
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- typescript
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- Newbie friendliness
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