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Fold private items
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Description
Hi, I just came up with this idea of being able to fold all private items (or just functions) of a file to easily navigate through its public API. It could be a rust-analyzer command called from the command palette (at least in vs code). What do you think?
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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 locating rust-analyzer's existing code-folding support and the VS Code command-palette integration. Clarify whether the command should fold all private items, only functions, or both, and define completion as reliably folding the selected private items in a file.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust, vscode
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100