fold-this.el

Just fold the active region, please.

How it works

The command fold-this visually replaces the current region with .... If you move point into the ellipsis and press enter or C-g it is unfolded.

You can unfold everything with fold-this-unfold-all.

You can fold all instances of the text in the region with fold-this-all.

In lisp-like modes you can fold an s-expression around point with fold-this-sexp.

Installation

It is available on marmalade and Melpa:

M-x package-install fold-this

Or just dump it in your load path somewhere and (require 'fold-this)

Setup

I won't presume to know which keys you want these functions bound to, so you'll have to set that up for yourself. Here's some example code, which incidentally is what I use:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-f") 'fold-this-all)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-F") 'fold-this)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c M-f") 'fold-this-unfold-all)

If you want to make sure that a mistype doesn't fold anything when your region is deactivated, you can use fold-active-region and fold-active-region-all instead.

You can customize the visuals of the folded region by changing fold-this-overlay face.

Contributors

Dewdrops contributed fold-active-region and fold-active-region-all
Fuco1 added folded region face customization.
Vladimir Kazanov let folds survive buffer kills via fold-this-persistent-folds.

License

Author: Magnar Sveen [email protected] Keywords: convenience

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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