Python code-folding in emacs?

python emacs editor folding
Mohammad Efazati picture Mohammad Efazati · Mar 9, 2011 · Viewed 12.1k times · Source

I have many classes and defs ...

I want to have + and - keys before class and def to collapse the class or open it ( toggle it ).

How i can do this?

Answer

Greg picture Greg · Jul 21, 2013

Hideshow works out of the box and folds python code. It is built-in my version of emacs (24.3.1)

I have never needed more than these commands:

M-x hs-minor-mode
M-x hs-hide-all
M-x hs-show-all

To toggle use C-c @ C-c which probably needs rebinding. You might also want to setup a hook in your .emacs file for hs-minor-mode to automatically be enabled when opening .py files.

I use it in combination the following to jump around.

M-x imenu <my_func_name>

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