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

[Vlad_Ghitulescu]

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

[arthur_rupp]

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

[Vlad_Ghitulescu]

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

[ThFiedler]

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.

[Vlad_Ghitulescu]

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

[ThFiedler]

Hi Vlad,

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

Regards,

Thomas.

[Vlad_Ghitulescu]

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?

[sdfraga]

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

[Vlad_Ghitulescu]

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

[matt]

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.

[Vlad_Ghitulescu]

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

[matt]

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

[Vlad_Ghitulescu]

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

[matt]

Sure. www.google.com

[Vlad_Ghitulescu]

🙂

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

Ok, I'll google it.

[matt]

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

[joachimrees1]

>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/

[Vlad_Ghitulescu]

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.