notepad++ folding based on whitespace depth

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I'm looking for a way to fold plaintext by whitespace depth. I would prefer for a notepad++ solution, but if it can only be done in another editor I could deal with that. For example

Header is arbitrary text
 Child is arbitrary text
 Another arbitrary child
  This one has a child of its own
Another arbitrary header
 And its child

Folding line 1 should hide lines 2-4, folding line 3 should hide line 4, and folding line 5 should hide line 6. I've tried a user defined language, but haven't been able to get it to fold without specific block start and end delimiters.

Set the language to Python, that seems to work. Perhaps you could copy the language definition and remove the syntax highlighting too. — Blorgbeard
That is similar to what I'm currently doing. Since (AFAIK) built in languages can't be copied and modified, I just use the python lexer with all the syntax highlighting disabled. The only problem with this is that I also edit actual python code sometimes, and I would like the highlighting to be on then. — QuantumRipple
So I see.. Perhaps you could mess around with the style configurator and set up some relatively easy way to switch highlighting on and off. — Blorgbeard

João Carlos Silva dos Santos João Carlos Silva dos Santos · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-02T11:36:22

You can use Notepad++, change the language > p > python. It will create automatically the folding based on space.

notepad++ folding based on whitespace depth

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