Folding comment space

[mark1502]

This is not an issue, but a feature request. Currently, when the comments are hidden, the space they occupied remains. I'd love it if that blank space was folded and then the spot was just identified with a 1 or 2 character mark, like ** or --.

Or another option could be, rather than hiding, just fold the comments. Then all multi-line comment blocks and successive single line comments could be folded and unfolded at once.

[fabrizionastri]

Hi,
first of all thank you @estruyf for this great extension.

I found @mark1502 's feature request as I was also looking for this functionality ... but after a few tials and errors, I realised that it was actually already (somehow) implemented.

In the version I'm currently using (v1.6.0), this is the behaviours that I observe when you trigger the "Hide Comments" button :

• if you have multiple sucessive lines that only contain comments, they will all fold/collapse into a group, with only the first line remaining in place (but this line will now be blank). Any empty lines in between will also fold/collapse into the same group.
• any isolated line of comments will not fold - it will just go blank, but remain visible/in place

This is inconvenient because the code now has lots of blank lines appearing all over the place apparently for no reason. This makes it hard to read.

I think that the following change in behaviour would be an improvement:

• any line that only contains comments - even if isolated - will fold (this means that the " >" to expand/show the hidden lines will now be placed on a line that is not hidden
• any empty lines between a pair of folded/collpased group will also fold into, and all will form the same group

This behaviours would allow a really compact and coherent looking code.

I hope that my explaination is clear. Let me know if you need any clarification.

[tonisives]

This would be nice to have. To actually hide the space below hidden comments as well. Currently, my code has a lot of empty space and it's hard to read

Here is my sample code and regex I use to hide it

[1emank]

I came here just to comment this issue. Sorry if someone commented exactly what I'm about to say, but English is not my first language and I might not have understood it correctly. I think the appropiate behaviour to implement this should be:

> Multiline comment or multiple one line comments together are found

Is there text before the comment's beginning in the first line?
└ Yes - collapse comment to the first line
└ No - Is there a line before the first line?
---└ Yes - collapse comment to the line previous to the first one
---└ No - collapse comment to the first line

Java example:

• Extended

1 ˅ /* comment that cannot be
2   collapsed to the line 0 */
3 ˅ public class Example { /* Multiline
4   comment */
5 ˅     public static void main(String args[]){
6 ˅        // Multiple single
7          // line comments
8          System.out.println("Hello world!");
9       }
10  }

• Hidden (current behaviour)

1 ˅
2
3 ˅ public class Example {
4
5 ˅     public static void main(String args[]){
6 ˅
7
8          System.out.println("Hello world!");
9       }
10  }

• Collapsed

1 ˅ ···
3 ˅ public class Example { ···
5 ˅     public static void main(String args[]){ ···
8          System.out.println("Hello world!");
9       }
10  }

The comment's collapse control should be on the trailing dots (···) instead of the arrow (>|˅), or in a new button, to avoid conflict with the collapsable blocks of actual code.