However, folding/unfolding toggling option is only available for Collapse Current Level command Ctrl+Alt+F (and for Uncollapse Current Level command Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F of course, but once this option is enabled, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F is useless).

Fold All, Unfold All, Collapse Level N & Uncollapse Level N cannot be toggled because the state of several levels cannot be determinated.

Here is a good example:

There are 4 level-2 tag under the root (level 1), 2 are expanded and 2 are collapsed. The result of using the toggle option on Collapse Level 2 Alt+2 will be confusing.

For the sake of consistence, folding toggle option is implemented for only one level.

so no need for the telling-off in my case,

It wasn’t meant as a telling off. You had provided useful information, then inexplicably (from my perspective) deleted it. Since it was 2 hours after you posted, I assumed you weren’t going to re-post. I had thought the information was useful enough that it warranted me posting the link. Sorry if you felt told-off.

Oh, maybe you meant my original message informing you that nothing can happen unless an issue is created? In which case, it wasn’t a telling off, but a frustrated response, because we often get situations like this: someone asks for a feature here, and then a year or two later, new users come by and tell us off for not fixing the bug or implementing the feature – when no one went to the effort to put in a feature request.

A native command will still be much more accessible to users, but thanks very much, @Alan-Kilborn for providing the code and @peterjones for adding info on how to get it working.

I downloaded the PythonScript plugin and was able to set up a shortcut key to use the toggle. Great stuff!

I am not sure why that post was deleted. Because that feature request does exist, and it does describe what was complained about in this post.

Come on, this feature is a no-brainer:
Please, please, please. Pretty please…

As Arkadiusz implied two years ago, for a new request to have a chance of being implemented, someone has to create an issue in the location where Arkadiusz linked. No one had done that in between 2017 when this topic was started and 2020 when Arkadiusz replied, and no one has done that between 2020 when Arkadiusz provided the link and today. Oddly enough, if no one cares enough to actually follow well-documented instructions on how to make a feature request, then the development team isn’t going to have it in their tracker, so they will never implement it.

And no number of "please"s in this forum can change the fact that this forum is not the issue tracker, and that as a Community of fellow Notepad++ users, this forum cannot make changes to the Notepad++ codebase.

makes toggling easier and saves on one unnecessary shortcut command…

After you have created the macro described and assigned a shortcut, using a shortcut to run a macro command (or using the macro menu to run the macro command) is no different than using a keyboard shortcut or another menu to run a builtin command – they are equally easy.

editor.toggleFold(editor.lineFromPosition(editor.getCurrentPos()))

I want to use Alt+C to Collapde/Uncollapse as a toggle function. Would be so nice and easy!

Please implement this feature it will be small but huge benefit, we NotePad++ users will luv it. Thanks!

Any update on this? Using Alt+n and Ctrl+Alt+F both to fold and unfold looks much more natural to me that having to press also the shift key when I want to unfold. These combinations could work perfectly as toggles, reducing the number of keys to press simultaneously to unfold, and not having to even move your fingers when you quickly expand and collapse again a certain fold level.

Thanks.

Indeed, your toggle behaviour suggestion, would make collapsing/uncollapsing easier ;-))

In the meantime, as a work-around, you could change, via the Shortcut Mapper, the shortcuts, regarding folding/unfolding the current level :

• Ctrl + Alt + F would become the Alt + 9 shortcut

• Ctrl + Alt + Shift + F would become the Alt + Shift + 9 shortcut

Best Regards,

guy038