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A Missing IDE Feature


Slightly unusual genre --- with this article, I want to try to enact a change in the world. I believe that there is a missing IDE feature which is:

very easy to implement (these days), is a large force multiplier for experienced users, is conspicuously missing from almost every editor. The target audience here is anyone who can land a PR in Zed, VS Code, Helix, Neovim, Emacs, Kakoune,or any other editor or any language server. This is exacerbated by the fact that it was a hardfeature to implement ten years ago, when we didn’t have Tree-sitter/LSP, so there are poorworkarounds in place — actions to fold a certain level.

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