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> Turns out VS Code collapses folders with only 1 subfolder, which is why we hadn’t noticed.

OMG. Decades of life in emacs (emacs!) would never have prepared me for a world where my editor would helpfully lie about the filesystem to me.

Yeah, this was horrifying to read. Obviously some of it is just normal churn, and all environments have their own oral histories and weird quirks. But... yikes.




FWIW, it tries to make it clear, underlining each path component separately, and with a path separator that sin't underlined in between.

It's nice for Java style packages that are all "src/com/company/project" before you get into the meat of any code.

I agree though about how surprising it is.


Github does this as well, it's not specific to VSCode or Javascript.




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