Folding Source Blocks

Folding Source Blocks

[Ian Barton]

If I have a large begin_src block it can make reading the surrounding 
text difficult, as the reader has to keep paging up and down. Ideally it 
would be possible to fold src blocks, but I can see that would be 
inconsistent with org's structure. I could put the block in a draw, but 
was interested in what others do.

Ian.

Re: Folding Source Blocks

[Nick Dokos]

Ian Barton <lists@wilkesley.net> wrote:

> If I have a large begin_src block it can make reading the surrounding
> text difficult, as the reader has to keep paging up and down. Ideally
> it would be possible to fold src blocks, but I can see that would be
> inconsistent with org's structure. I could put the block in a draw,
> but was interested in what others do.
> 

Pressing TAB (bound to org-cycle) on a #+BEGIN_SRC line folds the code
block for me - not sure whether there is a special setting to allow
that, but a quick look at my config did not uncover anything.

Nick

Re: Folding Source Blocks

[Ian Barton]

On 02/11/11 13:13, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Ian Barton<lists@wilkesley.net>  wrote:
>
>> If I have a large begin_src block it can make reading the surrounding
>> text difficult, as the reader has to keep paging up and down. Ideally
>> it would be possible to fold src blocks, but I can see that would be
>> inconsistent with org's structure. I could put the block in a draw,
>> but was interested in what others do.
>>
>
> Pressing TAB (bound to org-cycle) on a #+BEGIN_SRC line folds the code
> block for me - not sure whether there is a special setting to allow
> that, but a quick look at my config did not uncover anything.
>

Thanks for that. When I start Emacs with no config file, it works for me 
too. Must be some setting in my config that is stopping it working.

Ian.

Re: Folding Source Blocks

[Eric S Fraga]

Ian Barton <lists@wilkesley.net> writes:

> On 02/11/11 13:13, Nick Dokos wrote:
>> Ian Barton<lists@wilkesley.net>  wrote:
>>
>
>>> If I have a large begin_src block it can make reading the surrounding
>>> text difficult, as the reader has to keep paging up and down. Ideally
>>> it would be possible to fold src blocks, but I can see that would be
>>> inconsistent with org's structure. I could put the block in a draw,
>>> but was interested in what others do.
>>>
>>
>> Pressing TAB (bound to org-cycle) on a #+BEGIN_SRC line folds the code
>> block for me - not sure whether there is a special setting to allow
>> that, but a quick look at my config did not uncover anything.
>>
>
> Thanks for that. When I start Emacs with no config file, it works for
> me too. Must be some setting in my config that is stopping it working.
>
> Ian.

and 

#+startup: hideblocks

(equivalently: org-hide-block-startup variable)

will start up the org file with all blocks hidden.  I use this all the
time as I tend to have quite large blocks often.
-- 
: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.90.1
: using Org-mode version 7.7 (release_7.7.508.ga081)