Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[John Colvin]

On Monday, 2 September 2013 at 17:29:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/1/2013 8:28 PM, Manu wrote:
>> D probably appeals more to ex-C++ users (I'm not aware of any 
>> sensis, but D's
>> main offering at least to me, is an evolution from C++). We 
>> are used to being
>> able to gather a quick summary of a class at a glance.
>> D (or perhaps just me) makes extensive use of local functions. 
>> If the outer
>> function is at the leftmost tab level, it's easy to recognise 
>> if you're reading
>> the code from a local function or not. If the outer function 
>> is already a few
>> tab levels deep, I frequently find myself becoming unsure of 
>> what/where I'm
>> actually reading.
>
> I don't know if this is an IDE feature or not, but I've often 
> thought of adding a command to my editor (MicroEmacs) to 
> collapse/expand function bodies. This would make it convenient 
> to navigate larger files - just collapse, move to the function 
> you want to examine, then expand. It would also mitigate the 
> issue you have. I theorize that VS doesn't have such a feature? 
> Maybe IDEs are solving the wrong problem? :-)
>
> One that collapses out the comments would be great, too, as 
> I've found one downside of Ddoc is it can get hard to find the 
> code amongst the doc comments.

I'm pretty certain most IDE's do have code folding in some form 
or other. I can't remember ever noticing it not being there in 
anything I've used.