[Issue 19352] New: mago: Remove expander for strings in Visual D

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19352

          Issue ID: 19352
           Summary: mago: Remove expander for strings in Visual D
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P1
         Component: visuald
          Assignee: nobody at puremagic.com
          Reporter: r.sagitario at gmx.de

from https://forum.dlang.org/thread/bjlzrthffvkynzhbjfqm@forum.dlang.org:

Strings have an expander and are treated like arrays but they don't have to be.
The string is already shown in the value and there is the text viewer for them.
The expander just gets in the way.

The problem is that sometimes one might click on the expander and it expands
far too much. It most cases it is not needed.

Maybe you could make it an option(have an options page for things like this
that tweak things for personal taste) that you can add over time that doesn't
get in the way of normal functionality.

VS has a memory window for looking at arrays in a more meaningful way which is
nearly just as easy to use.

Since 95%+ of the time one doesn't need to look at the character data of a
string(since it's a string and not a byte array), the expenders are not needed.
In most of the other cases the memory window could be used. If anyone is needed
such behavior consistently then it can be enabled(or disabled, I don't care
about default behavior as long as I can override it).

The goal is to make the debugging experience easy nice as possible so it is not
so frustrating. Everyone is different and has different needs.

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