Feature request: 'Ignore comments' checkbox in the 'Find' dialog
Wide popularity of the embedded documentation conventions like JSDoc and C#'s XML comments leads to a situation where comments often constitute the bigger part of a source file (e.g. look at the source of [angular.js](https://unpkg.com/angular/angular.js): the whole API documentation is there!). This abundance of comments makes it extremely difficult to find anything in the source code proper. For example, reading someone's code, we might want to know how and where a certain function is used. However, if we decide to conduct a search by its name, we might get lost in dozens of code samples in the comments and overlook some important case of its real usage. Shift-F12 often helps in such situations, but not always. This undermines the habitual workflow of those who are used to rely a lot on the search to read the code. Not sure if any other editor has this feature, but it would be great to have the 'Ignore comments' option in VS Code's search dialog.
Posted by thorn0 on Sep 8, 2016, 1:16 PM
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Going forward with the TileMap editor
Just remember that many popular stacks are due to marketing; often the marketing pushes you in ways that are highly profitable for whoeve...
Set width and height attributes to img automatically
Proposal: WinUI 3 rust support
Proposal: pytest-cov should do less
Feature request: 'Ignore comments' checkbox in the 'Find' dialog
Feature request: 'Ignore comments' checkbox in the 'Find' dialog
Wide popularity of the embedded documentation conventions like JSDoc and C#'s XML comments leads to a situation where comments often constitute the bigger part of a source file (e.g. look at the source of [angular.js](https://unpkg.com/angular/angular.js): the whole API documentation is there!). This abundance of comments makes it extremely difficult to find anything in the source code proper. For example, reading someone's code, we might want to know how and where a certain function is used. However, if we decide to conduct a search by its name, we might get lost in dozens of code samples in the comments and overlook some important case of its real usage. Shift-F12 often helps in such situations, but not always. This undermines the habitual workflow of those who are used to rely a lot on the search to read the code. Not sure if any other editor has this feature, but it would be great to have the 'Ignore comments' option in VS Code's search dialog.
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