rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-analyzer

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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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.

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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

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