Code folding help

Vindicit · May 5, 2022, 6:28 PM

So Im trying to use code folding. I’m not sure what language I am working with so I am trying to create my own language setting. My open line in the code looks like “Macro XXXXXXX” my end code is just “End”. So my open fold is just “Macro”.

|Macro XXXXXX
|mid
|mid
|End

The issue I’m having is within the code there is “Attribute End” and “End Object” which is hanging up the end fold. How do I specify my closing fold as just “End” by itself with a new line afterwards?

PeterJones · May 5, 2022, 8:22 PM

@vindicit ,

Unfortunately, as far as I know, you cannot do that by itself.

The logic for determining the folding is pretty simple, and cannot handle restricted cases such as that. (It was more designed with simple pairs like if / endif in mind, where there is no ambiguity.)

However, if you can nest something like "attribute begin" / "attribute end" inside, then you could set
OPEN = "attribute begin" macro
CLOSE = "attribute end" end
then this text

blah

macro

attribute begin

attribute end

end

blah

will fold as:

… so the attribute begin / attribute end is a nested fold inside of the other

But that requires that anything with “end” in it be able to be added in the list (and the one that’s just-plain-“end” has to be the last version in the list).

Vindicit · May 6, 2022, 10:04 AM

Thanks Ill take a look at that.

Vindicit · May 6, 2022, 1:09 PM

So I took a look at the code and it has as an example

Macro XXXXX

Begin Object XXX

Attributes Beg
Attributes End

End Object XXX
End

So In the folding in code 2 style I have
Macro “Begin Object” “Attributes Beg”

In close I have
“End Object” “Attributes End” End

Does this look right? It seems to work.

PeterJones · May 6, 2022, 1:09 PM

@vindicit ,

If it works for you, that’s the important thing. I always keep the pairs in the same order, so I would have said OPEN = "begin object" "attributes beg" macro and CLOSE = "end object" "attributes end" end so that the object-pair were the first tokens in each, the attributes-pair were the second tokens in each, and the macro-pair were the third tokens in each. But that doesn’t seem to be required.