Code folding plugin for Eclipse?

Question

I dislike Eclipse's code folding feature, because the folding state isn't saved when you close the file, like Visual Studio does with its #region directives.

Does anyone know of a plugin which saves the status of the code folding per file, so that when I open it, the code stays folded?

Answer 1

Try to use: http://code.google.com/p/coffee-bytes/

You have to download the source code, import project into Eclipse and build it. After that Export code as a deployable plug-in for Eclipse. You will have a package for installation.

1. Install it into Eclipse.
2. Go To Eclipse Preferences...
3. Type in search "Folding"
4. Select Java->Editor->Folding
5. Select in ComboBox "Coffee Bytes Java Folding"
6. On General Tab set checkbox - "User Defined Regions"
7. In User Defined Regions tab - enter #region as a start tag and #endregion as an end tag

In code folding will be available after setting special comments into it:

// #region
... some code ...
// #endregion