Improve Inline Value Debug View

[hediet]

These rendered inline values are not really helpful.
It would be nice if the parameter values were shown (in particular modelLineNumber).

[isidorn]

I agree this could be improved but I think this will be tackled via microsoft/TypeScript#43449 once Typescript is able to provide exact inline values. Then we will not use a limited regex heuristic that we have on the vscode side

@weinand probably knows more on the timing on the TS side

For reference inline values on the vscode side are computed here https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/src/vs/workbench/contrib/debug/browser/debugEditorContribution.ts#L593

We should probably close this as a duplicate.

[weinand]

Yes, we will need microsoft/TypeScript#43449 before we can fine tune what gets shown as inline values. You might want to add a comment there...

[hediet]

Thanks!

Quick question: Does this middle of line inline values or are they always rendered at the end of the line (like they currently are)?

For parameter values, I think it makes a lot of sense to render numbers/booleans in the middle of the line (potentially with injected text 😉)

[weinand]

Showing inline values at the end of a line is an implementation detail of VS Code. The extension API for inline values does not stipulate that. From the API VS Code knows the source range of the variable/parameter, so we could easily show the value next to the parameter.