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Option to have comments prior to constants/vars/begin folded by default

A number of different systems I have worked on have a 'development standard' that all changes to the method, including the initial creation, have a 'date/reference#/developer/description of method or changes' comment at the top of the method prior to the constants/vars/begin statements. For systems that have been around for some time this can mean for a method with a lot of changes over time a significant amount of screen real-estate is taken up by these comments. It would be nice if we could have an editor option to automatically fold these top level comments when a method is initially being shown.
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John Richards 2/10/2018 9:49:02 AM
Hi Brian, The review panel discussed this idea at length, but unfortunately their conclusion was not to approved this suggestion. There were two main reasons. Firstly it was felt that the effort did not justify the rewards. Also there wold be difficulties defining a clean implementation.

Thanks for the suggestion. We are committed to reviewing all JEDIs.

Brian Johnstone 20/03/2018 3:01:47 PM
The editor already knows how to recognise and offer folding for either multiple lines of // commented text or comment blocks at the beginning of methods. I'm just suggesting it would be nice to have these folder by default to avoid the extra click on the fold button every time I select methods with a large amount of comments at the beginning. :)

Blake De?Ath 20/03/2018 11:12:03 AM
Could be achieved by having the editor detect xml tags in comments, and providing the collapse functionality present for if statements (and the like). Even just collapsing block comments would be useful
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