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narrow to fold improvement
Submitted by VoY on Tuesday, 21 September, 2004 - 11:53
I really like jEdit's ability to narrow my view to certain level of indentation/folding. However I find this feature rather incomplete. When eg. designing a long form in HTML, you often have around 10 levels of indentation (imagine a table with few more tables in it [I know - tables for layout are evil :-)] and perhaps a javascript code in one of the table cells and you get the picture). This makes editing and navigating the code pretty difficult - especially if you use whitespace's plugin feature called "Remove trailing spaces". Every time you hit an empty line then, jEdit will jump to the begining of that line, leaving you with a whole screen of empty tabs and no code. You then have to grab your mouse and scroll the textarea using horizontal scrollbar. Now if the narrowing feature had an option to hide the leading tabs, it would improve the code readability dramatically.

I RTFM hard, but came to the conclusion, that this is currently not implemented in jEdit. In case I missed something, please tell me. Appart from this little detail, jEdit is really cool and I evangelise it among all my friends .-)
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