bug#56635: 29.0.50; [PATCH] hide-show in python-mode supports ONLY function and class blocks

[Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>]

This is a marginally related remark, but I noticed that python-mode sets

    (setq-local outline-heading-end-regexp ":[^\n]*\n")

and this doesn't work well with the new-ish type annotation syntax.

Wouldn't it be better to simply remove this setting, reverting back to
the default "\n"?  Then folding by outline-minor-mode would behave like
hideshow currently does when it comes to something like

    def f(
        x: int
    ) -> int:
        pass

On Sun,  7 Aug 2022 at 23:37, kobarity <kobarity@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net> wrote:
>> I do agree that the best thing to do is to use functions instead of pure
>> regexes here. Can we hook that into hs-special-modes-alist instead of
>> doing something specific in python-mode? I'm imagining extending the
>> meaning of the fields in hs-special-modes-alist, where we'd do something
>> different, depending on if some element is a string or not. Maybe that
>> would make it easier to extend the hideshow support for other languages?
>
> If we are to extend hs-special-modes-alist, I think it's better to add
> functions to find/check blocks. Maybe this is the third option
> mentioned in the first mail.  For that, I added three functions to
> hs-special-modes-alist:
>
> - hs-find-block-beginning-func
> - hs-find-next-block-func
> - hs-looking-at-block-start-p-func
>
> Attached is a prototype patch to achieve this.
>
> Regards,