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How to fold / collapse selected code in Eclipse & ABAP Development Tools

Vlad_Ghitulescu — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 21:09:47 GMT

Hello!

How do you fold / collapse a selected part of your code in the editor window in Eclipse & ABAP Development Tools?

I don't want to fold only the part specific to a statement (IF, WHILE etc.) that's already marked by a + sign in a circle but a portion of the code that I select (with the mouse or the cursor and the arrow keys).

Any idea?

Thanks!

Regards,
Vlad

Re: How to fold / collapse selected code in Eclipse & ABAP Development Tools

matt — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 07:47:12 GMT

It's possible with some editors in Eclipse, but unless you see the option in the context menu, I don't think it's available in the ABAP editor.

Re: How to fold / collapse selected code in Eclipse & ABAP Development Tools

Vlad_Ghitulescu — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 08:58:19 GMT

I didn't find it in the context menu unfortunately 😞

Re: How to fold / collapse selected code in Eclipse & ABAP Development Tools

matt — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 09:24:08 GMT

Then it probably isn't possible. You could try asking on an eclipse specialist forum.

Re: How to fold / collapse selected code in Eclipse & ABAP Development Tools

Vlad_Ghitulescu — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 17:14:49 GMT

I didn't know that something like this exists! Do you have a link?

Re: How to fold / collapse selected code in Eclipse & ABAP Development Tools

matt — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 20:44:53 GMT

Sure. www.google.com

Re: How to fold / collapse selected code in Eclipse & ABAP Development Tools

Vlad_Ghitulescu — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 07:15:32 GMT

🙂

I thought you speak about an ADT-specific, SCN-hosted forum that I accidentally overseen.

Ok, I'll google it.

Re: How to fold / collapse selected code in Eclipse & ABAP Development Tools

matt — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 07:59:29 GMT

That's why I said "eclipse", not "adt" 🙂

Re: How to fold / collapse selected code in Eclipse & ABAP Development Tools

joachimrees1 — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 11:57:52 GMT

>ADT-specific, SCN-hosted forum

Yeah, would be nice if we had this! 🙂

https://blogs.sap.com/2017/04/11/blogs-about-adt-abap-in-eclipse-hard-to-find-as-theres-no-tag/

Re: How to fold / collapse selected code in Eclipse & ABAP Development Tools

Vlad_Ghitulescu — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 12:34:27 GMT

I didn't dare to ask about it (I already ask too much 😉 but yes, it's totally different organized than one would normally expect: I wasn't able to find a dedicated forum for ADT or a dedicated tag (Eclipse come with BW SAP HANA Modeling Tools as a prefix - there's nothing I do now, while using Eclipse! & no tag at all for ADT), or at least a detailed search where one can filter only ADT or similar.

Re: How to fold / collapse selected code in Eclipse & ABAP Development Tools

Former Member — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:00:24 GMT

CRTL NUM PAD + Folds a block of code

CRTL NUM PAD - Collaps a block of code

CRTL SHFT NUM PAD / Folds all code

CRTL SHFT NUM PAD * Collaps all code (This one doesn't work for me)

Window -> Preferences -> Type Keys

Re: How to fold / collapse selected code in Eclipse & ABAP Development Tools

Vlad_Ghitulescu — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:09:25 GMT

Hi, Sergio!

I have no NumLock on my keyboard, so I've changed the keyboard shortcut to something else (now I know how! 😉

However that doesn't do what I want (collapse ONLY the selected text) but instead collapses the content of the statement (as the small pluses in the circle in the gutter left do).

Thanks nevertheless!

Regards,
Vlad

Re: How to fold / collapse selected code in Eclipse & ABAP Development Tools

Vlad_Ghitulescu — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 12:42:40 GMT

I've found a discontinued, non-working plugin for this, so I suppose I'm not alone (heck, there are editors that support something like this)... Do you have a workaround for this?

Re: How to fold / collapse selected code in Eclipse & ABAP Development Tools

ThFiedler — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 14:11:52 GMT

Hi Vlad,

I'm not aware of such a plugin. In ADT we do not offer that kind of free style code folding.

Regards,

Thomas.

Re: How to fold / collapse selected code in Eclipse & ABAP Development Tools

Vlad_Ghitulescu — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 18:43:08 GMT

Hi, Thomas!

Could you put it on your feature request-list please?

I'm sure it would be useful not only for me: Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code, Xcode, BBEdit and other code editor have this since ages.

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Vlad

Re: How to fold / collapse selected code in Eclipse & ABAP Development Tools

ThFiedler — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 07:34:47 GMT

Hi Vlad,

yes, we can do that. But most likely this feature will not be implemented within the next release.

Regards,

Thomas.

Re: How to fold / collapse selected code in Eclipse & ABAP Development Tools

arthur_rupp — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 08:08:12 GMT

its old..i know..but any news here??

Re: How to fold / collapse selected code in Eclipse & ABAP Development Tools

Vlad_Ghitulescu — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 12:13:11 GMT

It's still not there with the newest Eclipse & ADT