Code folding

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Code folding is a feature of some program source code editors and IDEs allowing the user to collapse sections of a source code file while working in other parts of it. This allows a software developer to manage larger amounts of code within one window, without getting lost in a morass of complexity. A folding point is typically a method or function but can also be an entire class or even as small as an if-then-else block or comment section. (See also text folding and Folding editor.)

Recent versions of the open-source text editor Vim, Emacs, and the Java IDE Eclipse offer highly-configurable support for code folding. Sun's NetBeans IDE, Microsoft's Visual Studio.NET, the Code::Blocks Studio IDE, the UltraEdit text editor, the Zeus IDE , the KDE text editor Kate and the general source code editor [[Notepad++]] offer code folding as well.de:Code-Faltung it:Code folding nl:Code-invouwing