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Pondělí červenec 04, 2005

NetBeans Quick Tip #8 - Using Custom Folds

I have a friend who is a vim fanatic. You recognize his code by seeing many {{{ and }}} strings all over the sources. These strings are used to define custom folds in vim. They're just everywhere, it makes the code much less readable in other editors. Well, isn't this a typical example of user lock-in? ;-) If you're not using vim, sorry, your eyes have to skip all those {{{s.

Anyway, obviously folding seems to be an important issue for some of the people. Today's NetBeans tip is for all folding deviants. Did you know that next to usual NetBeans folds you can define custom folds? Maybe you've mentioned it in J2EE classes or in Swing forms, but in case you didn't here's a short explanation.

To add your custom fold, use following piece of text:

// <editor-fold>
   Your code goes here...
// </editor-fold>

You can define default description of a collapsed fold like this:

// <editor-fold desc="This is my super secret genius code.">
   Your code goes here...
// </editor-fold>

You can set a fold to be collapsed by default this way:

// <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed">
   Your code goes here...
// </editor-fold>

Happy folding!

NetBeans IDE Field Guide on Amazon

NetBeans IDE field guide is available from Amazon. I got my copy during NetBeans day, the book can help you learn use NetBeans efficiently and discover some of the features you may not have known before. This book doesn't cover developing NetBeans plug-ins, but I've heard some rumors about future plans... well, it would be nice to have another book for NetBeans developers, the older one is becoming obsolete.

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