Hi,

every time I launch VSCode I get annoying 'Do you want to hide comments in this project' popup. When I want to 'hide comments' I use appropriate command. Hiding comments may or may not be a common task for a project. When it is not common, this popup is annoying. How to disable it?

In C#, class (method, field, property, etc.) comments look like this:

/// <summary>
/// Foo bar baz Foo bar baz Foo bar baz Foo bar baz Foo bar baz Foo
/// bar baz Foo bar baz Foo bar baz Foo bar bazFoo bar baz Foo bar
/// baz Foo bar baz Foo bar bazFoo bar baz.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="bar">Blah blah.</param>
/// <returns>Something.</returns>
public string Foo(int bar) {

This extension hides all the text, but not the xml tags. It looks like this:

    <summary>...
public string Foo(int bar) {

And if expanded it looks like this:

    <summary>
    
    
    
    </summary>
    <param name="bar">          </param>
    <returns>          </returns>
public string Foo(int bar) {

Normal comments are hidden properly, e.g.

// blah blah blah
var foo = "123";      // blah blah blah`

I hope there can be C# support. This is a really nice extension, thanks for making it!

Start by always showing the comments.

When I hide comments, the JSDoc comments are still visible. These should also be hidden.

Show comments:

Hide Comments:

Hi, I'm a Code OSS user, an open source version of VS Code. It's the same code but without Microsoft's telemetry, branding and licensing.

I would like to request, if possible, to add your extension to the open-vsx.org market as it is probably illegal to use the official Microsoft extension marketplace on VS Code forks, see here.

Additional information on how to publish an extension to Open VSX Registry can be obtained here.

It would be useful to also hide logger commands. What do you think?

Example before:

logger.info("deploying AciWebservice..")
aci_config = AciWebservice.deploy_configuration(cpu_cores=1, memory_gb=1)
logger.info("AciWebservice deployed!")

logger.info("setting InferenceConfig..")
env = Environment('custom')

Example after:

aci_config = AciWebservice.deploy_configuration(cpu_cores=1, memory_gb=1)



env = Environment('custom')

This is not an issue, but a feature request. Currently, when the comments are hidden, the space they occupied remains. I'd love it if that blank space was folded and then the spot was just identified with a 1 or 2 character mark, like ** or --.

Or another option could be, rather than hiding, just fold the comments. Then all multi-line comment blocks and successive single line comments could be folded and unfolded at once.

I have no idea how to fix this. already restarted vscode.

Need option to show/hide console.log() prints with a separate button / keyboard shortcut.

I don't know if this is a bug or if I'm doing something wrong. I tried to apply my RegEx for ShellScript, where many lines started with "#". My idea was to create my own expression, which I tested on regexr.com, so I created something like this:

"hideComments.regex": [
    {
        "regex": "/^\\s*#.*\\n/gm",
        "flags": "hashtag"
    }
]

But it didn't work. Can You lead me what I messed up?

Some explanation to the RegEx syntax below

Hi, could you add the Keyboard Shortcuts option to Toggle both the show/hide of all comments and the lines by regex in one button please?

Currently there is only the "Toggle the show/hide of all comments" Keyboard Shortcuts option.

Thanks!

Just what I need since I am learning Zig with Ziglings (similar to rustlings) and I want to find the solution without the help of the comments

Instead of making the comments transparent, the comments should be collapsed like you can do by clicking on the bar on the left near the page #'s.

This way we don't have a bunch of empty white lines.

will there be support for that language in the future? or do I possibly have the extension configured wrong?

Hi! well done!

I've a simple personal question to you: from your experience on writting this extension, do you think that is feasible to write one that hide statements on typescript files that stars with @Api?

eg:

I'm thinking about making an extension to show/hide the above statements in files ending with some pattern

The only extension I found that is almost like I wanted was this https://github.com/L3v3L/vs-focus which makes the code looks like this:

When toggling comments, it updates "editor.tokenColorCustomizations" in "workspace settings" (.vscode/settings.json).

For many teams that config is included in source control, so every time one toggles the extension it creates changes.

Please consider allowing us to write to "user settings" instead?

Hi!
Thank you @estruyf for this great extension !

This is not an issue, but a feature request.
Sometimes, I would like to write code when I switched to "Hidden Comments" mode, but I would like the comment areas(folded or not) not be editable when I switched to "Hidden Comments" mode so that I don't accidentally modify any comments that are invisible.
What is your opinion ?

I have a user settings:
"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
"comments": "#24c347"
},

But after installing the plug-in, this life failed to work. The pale color of comments now is not ideal for my eyes. Can someone do something? 

The problem is, I have these sitting in the setting.json, after I uninstall the plug in, my settings doesn't seem to go back into effect.

Can you help me out with how to get this gosh darned extension to go away once and for all (lol)
I was working through a course and taking lots of notes (in comment form) that was making my files look messy,
so I was looking for a way to hide or collapse them. I found this extension and installed/enabled it.
The popup came up asking if I want to hide my comments, and I clicked yes

Decided I wanted to see my comments again, so I disabled the extension and reloaded vscode. Comments still transparent.
Uninstalled the extension and rebooted vscode. Still transparent.
When I exit vscode and start it back up, I don't get a popup asking if I want to see my comments again.
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling this thing 4 times, with various attempts and disabling and reenabling it, and attempts to restart vscode to get the elusive popup, but with no luck

I'm on a windows machine.. is there any way you can just let me know what setting it was that the extension alters so that I can keep getting work done in the meantime? It's really distracting and I'd just like to undo it

Thanks very much

Improve the behavior on startup to specify if the extension is enabled/disabled by default.

I know it's a visual hidden trick, but when I tend to forget where that comment was and start writing code where to comment for another line of code, so I tried messing with the workspace settings json file:

 "settings": {
          "foreground": "#00000000"
        }

It would be nice if there could be a simple command or preferably and mainly the user setting where I set my own color or have an opacity range scale.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is I don't want to hide the comment entirely, but just barely visible so I don't start writing code on the wrong line.
If it wouldn't be so much trouble,
Thanks. love the extension so far.

I have visible brackets when I hide comments:

I tried to reload vscode but no change, you have an idea ?

Sometimes I want to see comments like when I'm debugging, other times I don't want to see them like when I just want to look at the code to see what it's doing. If a keyboard shortcut (preferably) or a button in the toolbar was there to let you toggle comments on and off, that would be OP.

Had to reinstall, and set to "show comments" before uninstalling in order to fix.

Edit: I now see the note in the docs, but that is not intuitive. If this extension is even going to exist - rather than just doing it ourselves in settings - this really needs to happen automatically as part of the uninstall script.

This extension seems to work with comments like
// This is a comment

I also use an extension called Better Comments, where comments can be colours by adding extra characters
//! This will be in red
//* This will be in green

However, this extension doesnt hide comment if the first character after // is not a letter

As the title describes, it would be nice to toggle between only comments and no comments.

When I visit a complex function, my first task is to understand what it's doing at a high level. Low level code often creates noise and distraction to my ADHD brain. I'd like to hide all the code initially, read what it claims to be doing (intent) then hide the comments and read what it's actually doing.

Thanks

@estruyf thanks a lot for this plugin. A lot of people where waiting it for it: microsoft/vscode#46505

Would it be possible to implement a keyboard shortcut to toggle comments fold / fold ?

Thanks a lot