Code folding in Emacs.

[tolugboji <tolugboji@protonmail.com>]

Emacs should develop code folding (opening and closing) to also work with the mouse.

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On Sunday, October 10th, 2021 at 8:16 AM, Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:

> I just found the following code snippet from here [1] for code folding in Emacs:
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> (global-set-key (kbd "<C-f5>") 'set-selective-display-dlw)
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> (defun set-selective-display-dlw (&optional level)
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> "Fold text indented same of more than the cursor.
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> If level is set, set the indent level to LEVEL.
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> If 'selective-display' is already set to LEVEL, clicking
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> F5 again will unset 'selective-display' by setting it to 0."
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> (interactive "P")
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> (if (eq selective-display (1+ (current-column)))
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> (set-selective-display 0)
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> (set-selective-display (or level (1+ (current-column))))))
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> The above code trick seems very simple, but it works for many
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> languages. So I recommend it here.
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> [1] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-folding-for-emacs/41421/3
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> Regards
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> Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao hongyi.zhao@gmail.com
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