Folding without closing parentheses or tags

[Mister Smitt]

How do I fold code while preserving closing tags and parentheses?
The lone opening parenthesis sticking out looks strange to me.

Notepad++

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[PeterJones]

@Mister-Smitt said in Folding without closing parentheses or tags:

How do I fold code while preserving closing tags and parentheses?
The lone opening parenthesis sticking out looks strange to me.

As far as I am aware, the underlying Scintilla library which Notepad++ uses for the folding and syntax highlighting does not offer a way to configure whether or not to hide the closing element when folding. Unless I have missed something in their folding documentation, I believe that the configurable feature would have to be added to Scintilla, and then Notepad++ would have to provide that feature through its configuration interface. (I admit that I am not an expert on Scintilla folding, but I don’t believe it’s possible. If someone else knows how to get Scintilla to do it, then feel free to correct me.)

So, as far as I know, there’s nothing that Notepad++ can do to give you that feature, unless the underlying library were improved by its team first.

update: I was apparently wrong. See below.

[rdipardo]

@Mister-Smitt, @PeterJones

Yes, alternative folding styles are possible. They just have to be implemented in the Notepad++ application code.

According to the relevant Scintilla documentation:

The marker numbers SC_MARKNUM_FOLDER and SC_MARKNUM_FOLDEROPEN are used for showing that a fold is present and open or closed. [M]ore assignments are needed for the flattened tree style: SC_MARKNUM_FOLDEREND, SC_MARKNUM_FOLDERMIDTAIL, SC_MARKNUM_FOLDEROPENMID, SC_MARKNUM_FOLDERSUB, and SC_MARKNUM_FOLDERTAIL.

For example, the Notepad4 editor provides SC_MARKNUM_FOLDERTAIL as the default style, which creates the dotted boxes shown below:

[Mister Smitt]

@rdipardo

This is the perfect option!