Why is this a thing? What a huge time sink for me. I'd rather continue learning the course than having to stop to figure out why an IDE is doing what it's doing. I guess it's par-for-the-course for an IDE, since it can do so much. While working on the Udemy Django I had to create a "templates" folder then a "generator" subfolder beneath that. As you can see below the subfolder displays on the same line as the parent folder. Why Whammy...why? The others folders don't display this way!
So now I have to stop learning and look for a solution to a ridiculous IMHO problem. How do I even form my search phrase? Turns out this search "why does subfolder show on same line as parent folder in vs code" led me to a solution.
So there is a Compact Folders setting , which is supposedly useful for Java package structures. So although there are many programming languages let's make the default be useful for Java. Couldn't you make this decision based on file type? VS Code knows this is a Python file. As you can see below when the Compact Folders setting is unticked it displays the way I'm accustomed...the subfolder beneath the Parent folder. So why above, didn't "__pycache__" appear on the same line as "migrations"?
I won't remember the solution to this in a few days. I will probably remember having the problem. But thanks to the Wordpress search, will I even be able to find it?