Emacs: No code folding?? Seriously?!

[Markhor]

I am user of vim for several years. After constantly having to make heavy modifications to vim to suit my needs, I decided to switch to Emacs as my primary editor.

It's ironic that I am switching to Emacs primarily for IDE features, yet it doesn't seem to have the extremely useful code-folding feature (something which vim very elegantly provides), The only code folding mechanism I have found is selective display which essentially folds based on indentation. I'd like to fold regions of code. I ran into a hackish looking solution (fold.el). I'm wondering if anyone knows of a decent implementation of folding, preferably maintaining state across saves. Thanks.

[soltanis]

You sir, have found us the vulnerability that will win the editor wars.

[eunikorn_the_imazinator]

@soltanis
did you really think that the editor wars could be won so easily

@Markhor
Well, I would not like to comment on the code folding facilities provided by VIM because I have never used it.
Emacs comes with code folding facility built in ( i am using emacs 24) ... no external plugins are required to achieve basic code folding
you have to activate hs-minor-mode. Check out http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HideShow

also it is possible to have +/- symbols next to folded/foldable chucks of code. For that you need to install hideshowviz.el
check out : http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/hideshowvis.el

[juancarlospaco]

Get ed

[diesch]

I'm using outline-minor-mode (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OutlineMinorMode) for code folding. You can extend it to get vim-like folding (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OutlineMinorMode#toc8)

[soltanis]

@soltanis
did you really think that the editor wars could be won so easily


I don't even remember posting that comment, but I stick by it :P