How do you hide arbitrary section of code in VS Code?

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By "VS Code" I mean the lightweight text editor not the monolithic IDE, unfortunately searching this on google will bring up many pieces of irrelevant information about how to do this in Visual Studio.

To the question itself, Anybody knows how to hide arbitrary selected lines of code in "Visual Studio Code", preferably into a plus sign like collapsing does?

Note: this is different than collapsing nested code which probably could be achieved by Ctrl+K,Ctrl+<num> , what I need here is to hide specific block of code of choice, no matter nested or not.

EDIT: I see there are people who don't understand my requirements.

for example, you may think what I want is this:

before hiding:

for i in j:
    for k in i:
        for l in k:
            somestuff...

after hiding:

[+] for i in j: ...

What I actually want is this:

before hiding:

# doing stuff about a
a = ClassA()
a.bar()
a.i = 2
a.j = 3
a.k = 5

after hiding:

[+] ...  ( doing stuff about a )

2017.10.17 EDIT: turns out VS Code implemented a very similar feature called "Folding Regions" in VS Code 1.17.1 Update. link

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4 Answers

You can use the following delimiters for code folding:

C/C++:       #pragma region and #pragma endregion
C#:          #region and #endregion
CSS:         /* #region */ and /* #endregion */
Java:        //region and //endregion
JavaScript:  //#region and //#endregion and //region and //endregion
PHP:         #region and #endregion
Powershell:  #region and #endregion
Python:      #region and #endregion
VB:          #Region and #End Region

See https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/12146 ([folding] fold regions)

user_2433920

In the Insiders Build v1.70 now is the functionality and command to truly hide arbitrary lines of code. The command is

Create Manual Folding Range from Selection
editor.createFoldingRangeFromSelection

It is bound to Ctrl+K Ctrl+, by default. Select any lines you want to fold.

You can unfold those lines either by clicking the gutter folding controls or this command when the cursor is somewhere on the folded line:

Remove Manual Folding Ranges
editor.removeManualFoldingRanges

The above command is bound to Ctrl+K Ctrl+. by default.

fold selected lines demo

user_8363300

Comment with a delimiter with decreased indentation. Hiding then works as in nested, with the little arrow on the left.

see here

# Below here comes the code to hide.
    a = ClassA()
    a.bar()
    a.i = 2
    a.j = 3
    a.k = 5
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