How to prevent VS Code from collapsing a trailing empty line?

Question

I have a habit of using code editors for notes in the following fashion:

a topic
. a note
 ? a question regarding the note
  - a to do item
 . some more details
. another note
 . more details

another topic
...

What I like about VS Code is that it allows to fold (collapse) blocks in txt files based on their indentation (like for Python):

  a topic
+ . a note
  . another note
   . more details

  another topic
  ...

What I don't like, though, is that it also includes empty lines into collapsed blocks: the line after . more details has no indentation, but when I collapse that block I get

  a topic
+ . a note
+ . another note
  another topic
  ...

while I want it to be

  a topic
+ . a note
+ . another note

  another topic
  ...

Can you suggest what options should I change to get this difference about collapsing?

Answer 1

I don't know of a way to prevent the last line from being folded in VS Code, unless you use a 3rd party extension.

If you search extensions for 'folding' you should see several. Explicit Folding appears to have options to control this. But there are a lot more. Take a look & see if one fits your needs. If not then the only way to get this would be to develop an extension to handle this the way you want.