Support batch range formatting

[c-claeys]

With Editor: Format On Save Mode set to modifications, VSCode will sequentially send requests to its rangeFormatting provider(s). It'd be nice if the whole list of ranges could be sent at once instead of sequentially, allowing the formatter to handle this batch as it sees fit. This could be achieved by modifying registerDocumentRangeFormattingEditProvider to take an additional optional metadata parameter that the provider can use to express support for this multiRange mode.

[vscodenpa]

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[c-claeys]

Would the team be open to PR for this change? I'm happy to provide one.

[laurentlb]

To give additional context, we've had user reports like this:

Saving takes 5-15 seconds, and during the wait "Formatting via LSP" (or similar) is spinning in the status bar.
What is most surprising though is that (select whole file, and then "format range") gets it done 10x faster. So the task of formatting alone cannot explain the long delay.

When a file has lots of modified chunks, we see lots of round-trips to the server. Batching the requests can provide a very important performance improvement in some cases.

[vscodenpa]

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