Terbium-135

Terbium-135

VSCode: Folding all @doc at once

Is there a way to fold/unfold all occurrences of

@doc"""
[...]
"""

within a module at once (using a command or assigned keystroke) in VSCode?

Was talking to a colleague and have no idea where to look/ask at all.
Guess its part of language aware folding

Are there other editors which support this?

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billylanchantin

billylanchantin

Fold All Block Comments never worked in VSCode using Lexical here

That’s the problem. So sorry I didn’t think to check. Language aware code-folding is only implemented right now in ElixirLS:

https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/pull/492

So you have to use ElixirLS as your LSP instead of Lexical to get the language aware folding.

Reminder: it’s generally the language server protocol (LSP) that implements features like code folding, not specific editors. That’s basically the point of LSPs: each editor just implements the protocol. That way communities don’t need to write a new language server per editor. So switching to Zed or Atom won’t fix your problem (unless of course that editor happens to implement its own LS for the language in question, but that’s not usually the case).

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billylanchantin

billylanchantin

⌘K ⌘2 will do it for @doc in VSCode on MacOS.

The number indicates the level of indentation you want to fold. So ⌘K ⌘1 would fold the top-level defmodule, ⌘K ⌘2 folds all the 2nd level indented regions like @doc and def, ⌘K ⌘3 would fold all the highest-regions inside each def, etc.

Note: the default is that the command won’t fold the region where your cursor is. So if you’re trying to fold a particular @doc, make sure your cursor is outside it.

sodapopcan

sodapopcan

Vim certainly does and is actually on my list to write one for this very purpose. I have not done so yet but if you’re interested I’ll share here when done. Otherwise see :help fold-expr if you’re curious.

billylanchantin

billylanchantin

Oh and ⌘K ⌘J unfolds everything.

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Terbium-135

Terbium-135

Thanks for your explanation. Appreciate the link to a PR for ElixirLS.
Looking forward to see this implemented in Expert one day

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