Folding and user defined language questions

Marcin Gruszczyński

I’m customizing user defined language to work with KSP (Kontakt script) and I’ve got some questions I can’t figure out, maybe someone could help me out.

Is there a line limit for folding?
Folding is very useful. I defined the conditions and it’s working on shorter scripts, but it seems to go south completely, when a section to fold is relatively large, like 5000+ lines. It seems to pick folding point randomly all over the place. I wonder if it’s problem with too large section to fold or it may be something else.

Is there a way to remember folding state?
Say I have a file open, I fold all. Close Notepad++, re-open and it’s all unfold again. However if I have the same file open in two panes, it will open with folded sections, just as it was when I closed the program. Is there a way to control it?

Is it possible to copy/paste or drag’n’drop whole folded section?
It would be very useful to move whole folded sections around, is there option to do it?

Claudia Frank

@Marcin-Gruszczyński

Is there a line limit for folding?

A simple test with 10000 lines didn’t show any issues but this doesn’t
mean that a more complex test with different foldings in between wouldn’t.
If you could share the file and udl xml we could check if this is the case.

Is there a way to remember folding state?

Normally this is the case if you have remember current session … enabled (Settings->Preferences->Backup)

Is it possible to copy/paste or drag’n’drop whole folded section?

Select the folded section but make sure that your cursor ends on the next line -> ctrl+c / ctrl+v

t would be very useful to move whole folded sections around, is there option to do it?

The same as before ctrl+shift arrow up or down - but it will open the folded section after action.
Maybe using collapse level functions to fold again.

Cheers
Claudia

Marcin Gruszczyński

A simple test with 10000 lines didn’t show any issues but this doesn’t
mean that a more complex test with different foldings in between wouldn’t.
If you could share the file and udl xml we could check if this is the case.

I wouldn’t want to post the code in question on public forum. But, as I was trying to re-create the problem, I figured, it has something to do with encoding. The original file was marked as UTF-8, performing “convert to ANSI” fixes the problem, moreover when I convert it back to UTF-8 it still works. So, I guess there was something wrong in the file. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

Is there a way to remember folding state?

Normally this is the case if you have remember current session … enabled (Settings->Preferences->Backup)

Yes, I have the setting enabled. I’m working with two views open and it seems that the program always unfolds everything on left view, while remembering the state of right view.

Also, I wonder, if it’s possible to you a phrase containing a whitespace, as a prefix if keyword list. I have this structure:
*function bla_bla
…
end function

call bla_bla*

I wonder how to apply the same styler to “call” and a word that comes next, while not affecting words like “recalled”…