Re: Arbitrary folding in emacs

[Jai Dayal]

Emacs doesn't have code folding natively. You can get folding.el, though

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs-tiny-tools.git/tree/lisp/other/folding.el?h=devel


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:

> Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> narrowing the region is kind of opposite of what I am looking for -
> >> but I'll give it a shot - I am not familiar with it.
> >
> > To be clear, what I believe Eli is saying is to mark the entirety of
> > the buffer that you're interested in seeing, and then Calling
> > narrow-to-region.
>
> He's right, it's still the opposite.  I wants to mark what he doesn't
> want to see whereas you mark what you want to see with narrowing.  His
> approach has the possible benefit that you could divide the buffer into
> many hidden, shown, hidden, shown,... regions.  With narrowing, it's
> always hidden, shown, hidden.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>
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