Suggestion: special glyphs/icons for syntax elements
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- Dominant language
- C#
- Stars
- 394
- Forks
- 36
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
Proposal
Add the ability to decorate a syntax element with special glyphs. These glyphs could be:
- a regular Unicode character
- a special Unicode character, such as those in Nerd Fonts
- an image (bad idea, likely causes performance penalties)
Example
Here is a rough example.
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Red bounding box shows the boundaries within which the glyph can be placed.
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The user would choose where the glyph is placed (e.g., top left, top center, ...) relative to the center of the syntax element.
Example 1
glyph is ★
placed top right
Example 2
glyph is 🔅
placed top left
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points; start by locating the syntax-element rendering path in the Visual Studio extension. Define the supported glyph sources and placement behavior from the proposal, then verify that the supplied examples render at their requested positions.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100