gemini-cli - 💡(How to fix) Fix The functionality to read code by sections (Line 100 to 250) is completely useless VS to reading the entire file code. [1 participants]

What happened?

I've been testing for days and have come to a conclusion: when you work with Gemini and request small modifications or even move sections of your application—for example, when I ask it to move part of a function (moving this functionality so it's before the last one, i.e., reordering functionalities)—Gemini starts reading in sections, line by line, e.g., from line 100 to 350. This is awful because I've discovered that sometimes when Gemini finds the line, it makes the replacement and puts it in the requested location, but it forgets to delete the old part to avoid creating duplicate code. Therefore, it would be better if, instead of reading the code in sections, it read it completely and had an overview of the entire code file.

What did you expect to happen?

Gemini should be efficient at reading code (files) to make efficient changes, by reading the file completely instead of in sections, thus gaining a more accurate understanding of all the methods in that file.

I hope this part of GEMINI be improved

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CLI Version 0.42.0-nightly.20260428.g59b2dea0e
Model gemini-3-flash-preview
Sandbox no sandbox
OS win32
Auth Method Signed in with Google Tier Gemini Code Assist for individuals

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