Trick Your TextMate: Foldings
Thursday August 31, 2006 / 5 CommentsOnce again, I discover a small, but wonderful feature that has made life simpler. Foldings. With a single keystroke, you can collapse or expand sections of your markup, CSS, or code. You can toggle all foldings by pressing Opt + Apple + 0 or toggle n levels deep by using Opt + Apple + 1 for collapsing only the first level all the way to Opt + Apple + 9 to collapse your 9th level of code.
For markup This has become indispensable for looking at the overall structure of a file to determine how it’s built and the relationships between different div’s. It also allows me to collapse my CSS selectors for easier skimming. As usual, one of the keys to increased productivity is leaving the keyboard as little as possible, and this is just one more great trick to help you do that.
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Jon HenshawMy favorite Textmate folding trick is to highlight two or more lines of text and then hit F1 to fold it. This works great with TODO lists or anything hierarchical in nature.
Dan KubbLoving it. I have been using BBEdit for TOO long. I can’t believe I haven’t found this earlier. Thank you.
ericFantastic tip! Where this feature has been all my life I will never know!
Luke WaldingIt’s been in Visual Studio :) (VS also allows you to define your own Regions outside of the default ones created by html tag sections or variable/methods)
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