Feature request: Do not render block with only single line and block (new setting?). about vscode-blockman HOT 3 OPEN

Well, such feature is easy to build in folder structure, but code structure is often complicated and there are so many languages, so maybe each language it needs to build separate algorithm to detect such Parent Single Lines. I don't think that it doable by me in the near future. But maybe other developers will contribute in Blockman in the future.

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Actually, Blockman has a setting called: N27 Also Render Blocks Inside Single Line Areas, which is turned off by default. You can turn it on any time.

BUT, this is not the setting you are talking about. You are talking about parent lines of block. So, you want that the parent lines which are basically single line or without any value, should not be wrapped in their own block, right? This idea seems interesting, but I think it's not really intuitive, because if such single line parent has a child block, then it means that this parent property has a value, it's not without a value, it has a value, the value is its child block. So, if you hide the blocks of parent lines, then you lose the sense of tree structure. It's important to perceive that something is a deep child (child of a parent of a parent of a a parent...), because tree structure is very important information.

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Thank you for your thoughtful and quick replies.

Option to skip parent block render if:

• Parent is single line &&
• Parent has one block child

Yes that is exactly what I mean. I understand that it's not desirable in every situation, but in some cases it can be nice. I have disabled N27 Also Render Blocks Inside Single Line Areas. I was using only indent guides before so with this plugin the editor looks a bit busier but I still like it. This seemed like another possibility to clean up the interface a bit more.

VsCode does a similar thing in the folder tree when the only contents of a folder is another folder like in this example:

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