On Sep 10, 2006, at 8:12, Rich Siegel wrote:
During development, the question came up: "Do we really want to generate fold points for every damn brace? :-)" There are upsides and downsides to generating fold points in the gutter for every possibly foldable construct, but we elected to be conservative and keep the fold gutter as uncluttered as we reasonably could, collect customer feedback, and go forward from there.
I've not extensively used any editors besides BBEdit in modern times (the last was CodeWarrior in the late '90s) so I have little to compare to, but one option might be to have a user-define cutoff limit that specifies how many lines a block needs to contain before it earns auto-fold points. This would allow the user to control it based on their own desires for fold points as well as on variables like the size of their window. With this model, I think you'd definitely want the pref to be a language-specific one, and perhaps even allow it to be overridden at the window level.
And since code folding introduces an editor-recognized hierarchy to code, it'd be nice to see some other, related features drawn from outliner-class software. For example, it'd be great to be able to hoist a code block so that it's the only one visible in the window (while retaining its true context for such things as syntax coloring).
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