diff --git a/src/vs/editor/common/config/editorOptions.ts b/src/vs/editor/common/config/editorOptions.ts
index abae1f83f9e8fdedfb2b8aa273c421fefb84c397..163833a04d3aff799788d80a28d25cde9163335b 100644
--- a/src/vs/editor/common/config/editorOptions.ts
+++ b/src/vs/editor/common/config/editorOptions.ts
@@ -3440,7 +3440,13 @@ export const EditorOptions = {
 		EditorOption.foldingStrategy, 'foldingStrategy',
 		'auto' as 'auto' | 'indentation',
 		['auto', 'indentation'] as const,
-		{ markdownDescription: nls.localize('foldingStrategy', "Controls the strategy for computing folding ranges. `auto` uses a language specific folding strategy, if available. `indentation` uses the indentation based folding strategy.") }
+		{
+			enumDescriptions: [
+				nls.localize('foldingStrategy.auto', "Use a language-specific folding strategy if available, else the indentation-based one."),
+				nls.localize('foldingStrategy.indentation', "Use the indentation-based folding strategy."),
+			],
+			description: nls.localize('foldingStrategy', "Controls the strategy for computing folding ranges.")
+		}
 	)),
 	foldingHighlight: register(new EditorBooleanOption(
 		EditorOption.foldingHighlight, 'foldingHighlight', true,