This plan captures our work in October. This is a 5 week iteration. We will ship early November. We’re done with our work regarding supporting multi-root-folder workspaces (see #396) in the core. During this iteration we will assist extension authors to enable multi-root-folder support in their extensions. We will provide support using documentation, samples, issues, Pull Requests, and a special slack channel.

Endgame

• October 30th: Code freeze for the endgame
• November 3rd: Endgame done
  The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in October Endgame #37117.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend of annotations:

Workbench

• Decorate explorer items with the SCM and error state Git status in File Explorer #178 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Multi-root folders: indicate when a user is using an extension in a multi-root setup, but the extension does not yet support it Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Overflow design for the panel title area Panel actions are cropped when window is narrow #31503 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Support a vertical panel layout Make panel position configurable #2806 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• Avoiding catastrophic backtracking for Quick Open filters.ts’ matchesSubString() performs badly in some cases #35346 Christof Marti (@chrmarti)
• Respect .gitignore in Quick Open Setting to use .gitignore in QuickSearch #34991 Christof Marti (@chrmarti)

Editor

• Editor performance: decorations as an interval tree Reimplement decorations as an interval tree #36410@ alexandrudima
• Improve Ctrl+D/Cmd+D in collapsed selection case Ctrl+D should match whole words instead of substrings #8869 CMD+D should be smarter #9978 Request for Ctrl+D (find next): if no text is selected, find next whole word; if selected, match all occurrences instead (like in Sublime) #19825 Change All Occurrences GUI is hard to use #28528 Command D case sensitive option #34548
• Improve editor undo stops Create an undo stop when alternating between constructive edits, destructive edits, and cursor navigation #29036
• 🏃 💪 Editor investigate into a native model layer
• Folding performance: compute fold regions more lazy, create fewer decorations [folding] performance refactoring #36555 Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)

Debug

• Current launch config should be visible when the Debug viewlet is not active Always show the currently active launch config #31745 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn)
• node debug: Colorize evaluation results in the Console Colorize in debug console for evaluation results #35324 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn), roblourens

Terminal

• Avoid leaking processes on Windows when closing the terminal Terminal leaks processes #26807 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• Terminal improvements Improve Windows support in integrated terminal October 2017 #35505 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)

SCM

• Support to view a change indicted in the gutter of the editor [Feature Request] IntelliJ-style git gutter patch preview/operations (git checkout -p) #10782 João Moreno (@joaomoreno)

Tasks

• Task 2.0 schema polish Task 2.0.0 schema polish #29852 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer)

Languages

JSON

• Support JSON schema draft-06 [json] support JSON schema draft-06 #29152 Martin Aeschlimann (@aeschli)

JavaScript/TypeScript

• Adopt TypeScript v2.6 Adopt TypeScript 2.6 #36100 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Support completion proposals with explicit imports feature request: Auto import dependencies #2635 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Provide Quick Fixes for adding/installing @type dependencies Proposal for codefix commands #34787 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• 🏃 Support as you type completions inside template strings Provide way for a language to re-enable editor.quickSuggestions inside of a string or comment #34857 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)

Extensions

• Use UUIDs for extension identification to enable publisher changes Rely on UUIDs for extension identification #34812 Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Highlight recommended extensions in extension search results Visual indicator to identify recommended extensions in search results #36650 Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)
• Improve default view of the extension viewlet Improvements to the default view in the Extensions Viewlet #36649 Ramya Rao (@ramya-rao-a)

Extension Contributions

• 🏃 Work with extension authors to enable multi-root-folder support, see documentation team
• Support ESLint/tslint module install globally via yarn Support ESLint module install globally via yarn vscode-eslint#187 Microsoft/vscode-tslint#178 Dirk Bäumer (@dbaeumer) Erich Gamma (@egamma)
• Support multiple root folders in the npm-script-runner extension Erich Gamma (@egamma)

API

• Add resourceExtname context key Add editorFileExtension when clause context #34889 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Promote Color Provider API to stable Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Expose API to listen to particular configuration changes Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• FileSystemProvider add support to search for file names Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Replace the debug.logToDebugConsole command with an API create real API for “debug.logToDebugConsole” command #36753 Andre Weinand (@weinand)
• Async validation of the input box Feature Request – Async validation for ShowInputBox #34532 Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)

Engineering

• 🏃 Windows: high precision touch pad support, investigate whether a chromium patch improves the current behaviour Windows: Scrolling is not smooth but lags #13612 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Support fine grained listening to configuration changes Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Explore adoption of Electron 1.8 Daniel Imms (@Tyriar) Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Improve stability and performance of smoke test Stabilize Smoke Test #34203 João Moreno (@joaomoreno)

Documentation

• Update the multi-root folder migration support doc Erich Gamma (@egamma)
• Add Multi-root workspace topic New multi-root workspace topic vscode-docs#1169 Greg Van Liew (@gregvanl)

Deferred

• Explore using automated smoke tests to test electron beta releases Daniel Imms (@Tyriar)
• FileSystemProvider add support to search in files Johannes Rieken (@jrieken)
• Enable groups in the explorer’s context menu Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Investigate into improving install/update experience on Windows João Moreno (@joaomoreno)
• Support to enable an extension for a single workspace (currently only disable is supported) Sandeep Somavarapu (@sandy081)
• Multi-select in explorer Implement multi-select in left-panel file tree #1023 Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)
• Explore improving GDPR annotations in our code Explore improving GDPR annotations #36659 Kai Maetzel (@kieferrm)
• 🏃 Separate refactorings from the code actions menu CodeAction api change proposal  #34664 Matt Bierner (@mjbvz)
• Vetur: Explore support for multi-root-folder workspaces Multi root support vuejs/vetur#424 Pine (@octref)
• Support to programatically add/remove a root folder to a workspace Provide additional workspace API (read / write) #35407 Benjamin Pasero (@bpasero)