How to collapse blocks of code in Eclipse

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Some days ago my Eclipse was working fine and a   - appeared in every block that could be collapsed  functions  classes  etc      but now it does appear  and I don t know how to activate that feature again   It s Eclipse Helios  running on a Gentoo Linux box

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I assume you are using Java  but look under the settings for your particular language   Under the Window menu  select Preferences   Under Java- Editor- Folding  Select  Enable Folding

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For windows eclipse using java  Windows -  Preferences -  Java -  Editor -  Folding  Unfortunately this will not allow for collapsing code  however if it turns off you can re-enable it to get rid of long comments and imports

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For Python it is as follows    collapse all 1 level  Ctrl 9 expand all 1 level  Ctrl 0 collapse current  Ctrl - expand current  Ctrl     Hope that helps

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In Preferences  you ll find General   Keys   It s for setting your keyboard shortcuts   What I use it for more often  though  is to find stuff in Eclipse   You should see an input box labelled  type filter text    It s as close as Eclipse comes to a search feature for every Eclipse command

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Preferences -  C   -  Editor -  Folding    Make a right click in the editor window and go to preferences there  then only the editor-relevant section of the preferences dialog will appear  This works for JDT  CDT etc

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Here you go   Right Click on   button appeared on numbering strip on left most side -- gt  Folding -- gt  Expand All Right Click on   button appeared on numbering strip on left most side -- gt  Folding -- gt  Collapse All  This way you can expand and collapse all the methods on the file  Plus Buttons on numbering strip Context Menu  Context Menu

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In CFEclipse  Preferences   CFEclipse   Editor   Code Folding    Initially Collapse column  you can uncheck to see all expanded when opening  or check all boxes to close all when opening a file

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Try this option  Preferences   Java   Editor   Folding   Enable folding

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You can do   Ctrl   Numpad Divide   to enable folding  Also if you Right Click on the area where the   or - was supposed to be  you can see there is a folding option

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I was using salesforce apex classes with Eclipse Neon 3 3 for Java  I found an option  define folding region  on right click in the editor  I selected the block of code i wanted to collapse and selected this property for that code  Now I am seeing   and - symbol to expand and collapse that block of code

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To collapse all code blocks Ctrl   Shift     To expand all code blocks Ctrl   Shift     pydev   To collapse all code blocks    Ctrl   0  To collapse all code blocks    Ctrl   9  Is there a way to collapse all code blocks in Eclipse   by  partizanos and  bummi

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If you want folding an all your editors  I found you can enable Folding in   Preferences   Editors   Structured Text Editors   Enable Folding

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