[Python-mode] Fwd: Re: Python docstring folding

[Andreas Röhler]

Hi all,

is this worth a feature request?

Cheers,
Andreas


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Subject: Re: Python docstring folding
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 19:16:58 +0000
From: Rock Storm <rockstorm at gmx.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams at oracle.com>
CC: help-gnu-emacs at gnu.org

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 10:12:03AM -0800, Drew Adams wrote:
> > I'm struggling with code folding. I installed
> > 'outline-magic'. Which works great but it doesn't
> > fold docstrings... Is there an easy way to achieve
> > docstring folding?
> 
> What do you mean by folding doc strings?  What do you
> want that it doesn't do?

The behaviour I was expecting would be something similar to what this
plugin does [1].
  [1]: https://github.com/alecthomas/SublimeFoldPythonDocstrings

> If you just want to toggle whether doc strings (only)
> are hidden, see this:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2018-11/msg00115.html

Thanks a lot for the hint. I'll try that. However, isn't there a less
complicated way of doing it? Is it so uncommon? How did Python
developers live before you provided them with this? :P

Thanks again,
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Rock Storm
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