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[FR] Add option to customize code-folding "Show"/"Hide" button text #2613

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@zachary-foster

The code folding feature is quite useful, but I think its appearance could be improved. The button says "Show", which is a reasonable default given that what is folded may not be code. However, this ambiguity means that if all the code in folded in a document, it is not clear what "Show" actually does.

Others have wanted this functionality as well:

https://forum.posit.co/t/text-in-the-button-to-show-hide-code/187673

And some formats have circumvented this issue:

https://rstudio.github.io/distill/

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They do this with a YAML header option:

---
output:
  distill::distill_article:
    code_folding: "Show/Hide Code"
---

Ideally, I think this would be a chunk option, since a single document could have different types of things, code or otherwise, folded. Also, the way distill formats the button as text with a rotating arrow looks cleaner and more modern to me.

If there is interest in this feature, I would be happy to work on it and submit a PR to address it.

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  1. yihui commented on Mar 31, 2026

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    That makes sense to me. Please try a PR. Thank you!

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