Timeline for Please add the ability to fold blocks of code in questions and answers
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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| Jul 12, 2018 at 16:15 | comment | added | Matt | Jeff actually declined this feature request. | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 15:48 | comment | added | John Rudy | Updated link with wayback link provided by @James Haigh. Thank you. | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 15:48 | history | edited | John Rudy | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 40 characters in body |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 22:59 | comment | added | James Haigh | (I was initially just seeing the unrelated articles at blog.codinghorror.com because that's what the broken link silently 301-redirected to without me noticing, hence why it wasn't obvious as to what you were referring.) | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 22:46 | comment | added | James Haigh | Oh wait, it's a broken link. Here's an Internet Archive Wayback Machine capture of the article titled “The Problem With Code Folding”, dated 2008-07-06: web.archive.org/web/20100120154520/https://codinghorror.com/… You see, that's the problem with external links, especially in the case of pastebins which may be set to expire. | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 22:00 | comment | added | James Haigh | Which bit of that article are you referencing? I'd rather not read more than I have to of things written by Jeff. :-/ | |
| Nov 14, 2011 at 1:38 | comment | added | kekekela | Jeff was probably sick of getting blamed for his code :v | |
| Dec 8, 2010 at 15:38 | comment | added | Dave Jarvis | Jeff's arguments are quite valid in the context of a software development environment. StackOverflow, however, is not a software development environment, not an IDE. It is a place to talk about problems with source code. Sometimes you need to share the code so that someone can run it -- they need not examine the entire snippet. There are text pastebins that exist, and can be linked to from within a question, however it makes more sense to fold the code and keep the code bundled with the question on StackOverflow. This would then allow for personalized fold/unfold settings. | |
| Jul 14, 2009 at 19:12 | comment | added | akarnokd | Jeff can opt-out of such feature and he won't experience it at all. | |
| Jul 14, 2009 at 17:59 | history | answered | John Rudy | CC BY-SA 2.5 |