[Tutor] Finding the End of a Def?

[Alan Gauld]

"Wayne Watson" <sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net> wrote

>  You can of couse use the folding feature to speed navigation 
> between functions etc... 
> Keypad * will fold/unfold everything... 
> 
> Interesting, but it folds way too much.

yes but you can use other keys to fold just the current function, 
or even a while loop within a function or an if statement etc.

Its a very powerful feature and one of the reasons I use SciTe 
as an alternative editor to vim (vim supports folding too but its 
much more clunky IMHO). Using folding you can always collapse 
a function to fit on a single screen and focus on just the 10-20 
lines that really interrest you..

But for rapid movement around files Fold All, a mouse click 
and then un-Fold All is very effective.

But I do agree that block level navigation seems a glaring gap 
in Scintilla's features as a programmers editor

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Alan Gauld
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