[Pydev-code] code folding

[Paul <pau...@af...>]

Hi List,

I see from this
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1841410&group_id=85796&atid=577332),
that PyDev still doesn't support code folding on custom tags. Not sure
if this is the latest word on it or if I'm missing something, but from
my searching on the net and the mailing list archives, I can find
nothing more on it, and it seems at least a few people would like to
see this feature.

I've had a stab at it myself, trying both hacking the PyDev plug-in,
and scripting it with the jython scripting support, but so far no luck.
I'm afraid I'm new to Eclipse plug-in dev, and am having some troubles.

I was wondering if there was any further info on this, anybody already
involved in PyDev work that would add this (as it seems like it would
be fairly quick to add for someone who knew the internals of PyDev), or
if not, anybody who could help me get pointed in the right direction?

For hacking the plug-in, I grabbed the code off github, unzipped the
zip (I didn't want to clone the repo yet, as I just wanted to poke
around quickly for now, and don't already have git installed), loaded it
into Eclipse, but can't seem to run it. Something about the build path
being incomplete and not being able to find java.lang.Object. I'm sure
this is really simple, but I'm not very experienced with Java or Eclipse
dev, so I'm just not quite sure how to set it up correctly.

For the scripting approach, I've gotten further. I have hooked up an
IDocumentLister in the 'onSetDocument' event to listen for changes to
the document, but from looking at the plug-in code, it looks like I may
actually want an IModelListener hooked up instead. I can't seem to get
that part working, tho. Once I have the correct listener, I'm thinking
I can check the document to get access to the comments, look for a
custom comment, and add the mark to the listener (simple, right?).

Either approach should do, and both seem to have their advantages,
although the scripting approach may be easier for me to get working. Any
comments as to which is preferable?

Anybody able and willing to help me out?

Thanks all

Paul