Show basic info on unsupported file

[ecstrema]

When an unsupported or binary file is opened, it shows this:

I however quite often open these in vscode to check some basic file properties, like file size (I have the file-size extension, which shows the file size in the bottom bar)

I think these should be shown by default: what about something like this?

This should happen around this part of the code:

vscode/src/vs/workbench/browser/parts/editor/binaryEditor.ts

Line 64 in d196a31

label: localize('binaryError', "The file is not displayed in the text editor because it is either binary or uses an unsupported text encoding."),

[bpasero]

File size is shown in the status bar bottom right:

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[ecstrema]

File size is shown in the status bar bottom right:

@bpasero true, but

1. Not by default, this comes from an extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mkxml.vscode-filesize Actually it's there by default, you're right, I checked on vscode.dev to quickly check with extensions disabled, but it is not supported on vscode for the web
2. It's an empty editor, we can do more than leave it empty

[bpasero]

It comes by default, I do not have any extension installed.

[ecstrema]

Right but I still think we can do better than this "empty" editor

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