Chris SiebenmannI'm slowly sliding toward a hot take that docstrings as usually implemented in eg Python and Lisp are a mistake in the large, because you have to put them between the function definition and the function code body. Make your docstring too big and you push them too far apart.
faried nawaz@cks emacs has a few ways to "fold" docstrings to hide them. i would be surprised if you couldn't do that in vscode or other editors.