Re: GtkSourceView: code folding

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

Hi

On Tue, 2014-08-12 at 17:02 +0200, Paolo Borelli wrote:
> Well, while it is true that we are not particularly interested in
> getting this in gedit, but I still would very much welcome code
> folding as a feature in gtksourceview.
>
>
> Note that there is a bug open in bugzilla that contains an
> implementation of a folding API for gtksourceview, and the drawing
> part was working quite nicely last time it was tested (but I am pretty
> sure things have bitrotten in the mean time).
> Things were stuck because we wanted to implement the folding logic
> itself based on the highlighter, but I think that is not a requirement
> and we could merge an API that allows to fold part of the text,
> leaving to the caller the logic of where to fold.
>
>
> I think I understood what you want to do with the text anchor: you
> want a small clickable target within the buffer, something like [...]
> to show that there is folded text. The code in the bug/branch I
> mentioned had this feature, but I think it was done by simply drawing
> on top of the text instead of inserting a widget.
>
>
>
>
> If you would like to pick up that bug, compare the proposed
> api/implementation with yours, and try to push things forward in
> gtksourceview itself, it would be very welcome.  Beside, also
> preliminary patches to undomanager or other parts to make your
> implementation work would surely be considered.
>
>
>
>
> Ciao
>
>
>     Paolo
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I do see - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134610 . Would be
useful, given that C++11 has anonymous functions.


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