Jdeveloper code folding
Brian Duff posts about code folding in Jdeveloper. I think i’m in same camp as Brian on code folding: nice, but probably not for me.
Some weeks ago a colleague mentioned that he liked the code folding in visual studio very much, and that he would like to see the same thing in Jdeveloper. My reaction then was: why? What use is code folding. To see the contents of a class without all the coding details? I use the structure view for that. Want to edit a specific method? Just select it in the structure view. My feeling is that once you start using code folding, you needlessly spend a lot of time opening and closing code blocks.
30 Mar 2005 |
March 31st, 2005 at 1:44 pm
Agreed. I was helping my wife on her project and she was using Eclipse. I got lost on the code, because it looked like an interface declaration – there was not an explicit indicator that the code was folded. And I found me opening and closing clode blocks as you said.
What I think it’s helpfull is “javadoc” and “import” folding. Specifically collapsing javadoc helps a lot when you’re surfing through the code – usually one that you know very well.