How to hide comments

[jesseatkinson]

Is there a way to hide comments? I have to heavily comment my code. I'd love to be able to turn comments on and off so that it would show or hide comments. Is this possible?

[facelessuser]

It is possible, but not out of the box. You could write a plugin that finds all comments, and then fold all of those regions with one command, and then with another command unfolds all of those comments.

[jesseatkinson]

Hm... I can't be the only human being to want this functionality. I guess I got to start researching how to write a Sublime Text 2 plugin.

[bizoo]

Basically, it is:

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view.fold(view.find_by_selector('comment'))

Now if you want a nice result, you must probably tweak a little bit the regions returned by find_by_selector (join adjacent regions, add/remove line ending, ...)

[jbrooksuk]

Basically, it is:

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view.fold(view.find_by_selector('comment'))

Now if you want a nice result, you must probably tweak a little bit the regions returned by find_by_selector (join adjacent regions, add/remove line ending, ...)

Do you happen to have that in a nice package already?

[jesseatkinson]

Basically, it is:

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view.fold(view.find_by_selector('comment'))

Now if you want a nice result, you must probably tweak a little bit the regions returned by find_by_selector (join adjacent regions, add/remove line ending, ...)

Do you happen to have that in a nice package already?

Yeah, I don't know Python at all...

[facelessuser]

Yeah, I don't know Python at all...

If I get some time in the next couple of days (and someone else hasn't beaten me to the punch), I may take a swing at this; we shall see.

If you end up giving it a try and have issues, just post your questions here, and I am sure you will get help; there are a lot of people here with python/plugin experience, and most are pretty helpful.

[weslly]

actually this is pretty easy, this plugin should solve the problem

http://cl.ly/312l47310A181h3f1116

[facelessuser]

actually this is pretty easy, this plugin should solve the problem

http://cl.ly/312l47310A181h3f1116

Nice!

[jesseatkinson]

actually this is pretty easy, this plugin should solve the problem

http://cl.ly/312l47310A181h3f1116

Nice!

Wow! Super nice community! Thank you!

Now... I'm kind of a n00b to this Sublime Text 2 thing. How do I install & use this? I'm used to installing things with the package explorer.