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Add code folding

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
emacs-lisp, matlab
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by locating the mode’s handling of *.m and *.tlc files and inspect the existing editing and navigation entry points. Determine how functions and related blocks should be recognized and what collapse/expand behavior is expected; done means those constructs can be folded and unfolded while editing.

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Description

enhancement

When editing *.m or *.tlc files, it would be nice to be able to collapse/expand functions, etc.

Dominant language
Emacs Lisp
Stars
27
Forks
5
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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