code folding

[XavierAP via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 13 March 2017 at 17:29:41 UTC, Inquie wrote:
>
> I have been using
>
> static if(true)
> {
>     ... junk
> }

Indeed #region is part of the C# specification, even if it has no 
effect on the code. (The specification does not say anything 
about folding/collapsing, just about "marking sections of code", 
although I guess most IDEs supporting it will follow the example 
of MS's reference implementation.)

Short answer, D does not have this, as far as I know.

I don't really think it's good substitute practice to insert 
meaningless static if(true)... Even if you're really used to that 
feature, and even if you're right that it does the job and 
doesn't change the generated code.

Unfortunately you can't get this folding easily (I'm sure some 
Vim wizard would come up with something). Instead if you want to 
mark regions of code, that's what comments are for. You can't get 
the folding you want unfortunately (outside of naturally existing 
bracket pairs) but you can use your editor to search forward and 
backward in the file for whatever text, e.g.

//region: foo//