Hello,

I must say I am very happy that we have code folding... but... it is almost unusable. Here is
a list what I think would make folding really great. It is sorted by my priority.

1) Shortcut to fold/unfold current fold block (I can not understand why we do not have these) - one key please, open/close, simple
2) Persistent "temporary" fold - when I select code, foldit, unfoldit - fold is gone!? What the hell?
3) Folding of if-else, foreach and BLOCKS! ({...})... and arrays (I mean long definition of arrays) - persistent again
4) When I select big part of code to foldit, I have to scroll-up to find this tiny (-) button, totally unreliable. (point 1 solves this)
5) Ability to fold in JAVASCRIPT or at least JAVASCRIPT as whole
6) Ability to fold any HTML TAG (which would partly implement 5. )

Please think about it, I really feel that at this point folding is really at 5% of its usefulness...
Thanks and keep up the good work!

You might want to check out the shop, there's a new build that has this.


Couldn't agree more

Persistent "temporary" - that sounds good! Aren't the terms mutually exclusive?
PhpED's editor marks selected text as folds that you may collapse. Once you expand them, they will be converted to selected block again. If you move cursor, that text may become unselected and therefore fold is not available for it anymore.

as of the rest, I agree and actually we're moving in that directions.

Lol dmitri

I actually like the temporary folds, but I was silently hoping on a key combo to toggle a folds' persistence.
ie you select, you press keycombo: fold is persistent, you press combo "within" the fold again, returns to a normal selection or something similar.
But if all block elements could be folded (which you seem to indicate), I don't think there is much need for that anyway...

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Heh, of course... I am not speaker English (unfortunatelly for me it is too obvious...) , and I could not find right term for "temporary" fold. Maybe I should call it "freeform" fold But - If this temporary/freefold would be persistent by default, then it would be great

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You might want to check out the shop, there's a new build that has this.

Oh great!!! Thanks

The joke is about something temporary that is persistent - they rule out each other If it's temporary it doesn't last, something persistent lasts, see?

Yes yes I understand... It is funny...

It has but it's still not perfect... I have so many shortcuts already that it was hard to set up another two for folding/unfolding area at cursor. Having TWO shortcuts for something that could be toggled with ONE is kinda inefficient for me.

Please consider making separate shortcut that would toggle the folding of the region at cursor.

I would like to see something more in line with what you would find in Csharp with the #region and #endregion directives which are designed to give editors hints for code folding. This would allow me to define custom regions that should have code folding and this would make it persistent to anybody who loads my code.

Now, given that php doesn't have a 'region' directive, but maybe this could be somewhat implemented by keyword or formation of comment section. Maybe something like '//region' to mark the begining, and '//endregion' to mark the end.

Yes, snorkelbuckle's idea is I think a good approach to the matter. I second that!!

Agreed. In combination with a little more detailed folding by default (if, for, foreach, while, ...) that would solve every "complaint" about the codefolding so far and would also save the NuSphere gents the effort of having to find something to store custom folds (if they were planning on doing so of course)