how to clear or change this ?

Sophie Cong

how to change or clear this ?
I don’t know how to call this, but it gives you the options to show/hide some texts. Screenshot 2023-08-02 163057.png

PeterJones

@Sophie-Cong ,

It’s called “code folding” – it’s a feature of each individual language lexer (the component of Notepad++ that handles code coloring / syntax highlighting, which has separate rules depending on whether your file is C++, HTML, JSON, or what have you)

The Settings > Preferences > Margins/Border/Edge allow you to change the symbol used, or to turn off there being a code-folding symbol at all (though even with ☑ None chosen, the View menu folding commands still work.

As for influencing where those occur: it’s defined by each language’s lexer, so is not customizable.

Sophie Cong

@PeterJones said in how to clear or change this ?:

@Sophie-Cong ,

It’s called “code folding” – it’s a feature of each individual language lexer (the component of Notepad++ that handles code coloring / syntax highlighting, which has separate rules depending on whether your file is C++, HTML, JSON, or what have you)

The Settings > Preferences > Margins/Border/Edge allow you to change the symbol used, or to turn off there being a code-folding symbol at all (though even with ☑ None chosen, the View menu folding commands still work.

As for influencing where those occur: it’s defined by each language’s lexer, so is not customizable.

Thanks,Peter, so how do I adjust this ? for example, now it spans from line 1 to line 10,but I need it to span from line 1 to line 5 only. my document type is sql.

Michael Vincent

@Sophie-Cong said in how to clear or change this ?:

it spans from line 1 to line 10,but I need it to span from line 1 to line 5 only

You don’t. Code folding is implemented by the parser for your language. So maybe you could rewrite your query a different way, or maybe there is not a possible “fold” at that position that could be folded.

Perhaps show your code would be a little more helpful.

Cheers.

PeterJones

@Sophie-Cong said in how to clear or change this ?:

Thanks,Peter, so how do I adjust this ? for example, now it spans from line 1 to line 10,but I need it to span from line 1 to line 5 only. my document type is sql.

That’s defined by the SQL lexer. I am not an SQL expert, but I would assume you would need to define something that would be considered an SQL “block”, because the code folding usually happens on “blocks”.

For example, in C/C++, a block is often defined by the opening to closing curly braces, so it would fold on

for(int i=0; i<10; i++) {
...
}

I don’t know what all the SQL language considers a block, and whether there are edge cases where the official definition of a block is different from what the lexer/syntax highlighter considers a block.

But it’s completely dependent on the code you have written in your SQL to determine what is considered a block.

Sophie Cong

@PeterJones Thank you for the explanation.