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From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: customize hideshow.el?
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 23:58:39 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8Uxy3pM43MJS9fvyj52a8YdOorbvqh_6w7MepOO3d5inQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861sofza80.fsf@stephe-leake.org>

On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 11:46 PM, Stephen Leake
<stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote:

> If all the code fits in one window, this is not hard. But if the "if
> then else" is long, I'd like to hide it, so I can easily delete the
> "declare begin" and "exception end".

The pain you are experiencing is an indicator of a problem.
Specifically, the code you are dealing with is too complex.

You can treat the symptom with a painkiller such as hideshow. But the
root cause is better treated by extracting a
function/procedure/subroutine.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-13 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-13 16:46 customize hideshow.el? Stephen Leake
2017-08-13 16:58 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2017-08-14  4:44   ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-08-13 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-13 19:35   ` Stephen Leake
2017-08-27 12:07     ` Stephen Leake

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