As this is my first blog entry, let me start out by introducing myself: my name is Bridget, I am the most junior member of the Ravenglass team and fresh to the Coldfusion community with less than a year under my belt.  Now, onto the good stuff:
 
As many of you know, one feature that CFEclipse offers is to automatically add folding markers to certain blocks of code, written in coldfusion (FYI: the technical term for this feature is "Code Folding").  This comes in handy when you are dealing with a large amount of code in a file, because then you can hide or show the code blocks that are relevant to what you are working on.  Some examples of where these markers are automatically placed are <cffunction> blocks in a CFC and code within a comment.
 
After being frustrated that these markers were automatically added in some awkward places of my code, I decided to take things into my own hands and figure out how to manipulate these to do what I want.  Less than 5 minutes later, I was headed down easy street (with a blog entry to boot).
 
First, let's make sure that you know where exactly to find the folding markers in your code editor.  For me, they are the arrows with little plus/minus signs in them, immediately to the left of the code and to the right of the line numbers - this may not be exactly the same for all, but if you see plus/minus signs next to your code, you're probably on the right track.

The next part is pretty easy, whether you want to add or remove these markers from some code, you pretty much follow the same steps.  
  1. Highlight the code you are interested in manipulating the folding markers for.
  2. Right click and select either "Add Folding Markers" or "Remove Folding Markers" from the menu that appears.
  3. Take a deep breath and smile because that was extremely simple.
 
I hope someone finds value in this quick tip!
 
Til next time,
Bridget

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