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(I have recently taken to Mathematica... still a noobie) Is there an elegant way of hiding/collapsing only a portion of a function (for example, in Matlab, within a function, one can collapse the for or while loops) ( if functions could span multiple cells, this would have been straight-forward!) Thanks |
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The Mathematica Front End does not have this feature. Wolfram Workbench does though. However, it is possible to collapse cell groups in notebooks by double clicking their brackets. This is useful. For navigating functions, the Ctrl+. key combination (extend selection) is extremely useful. |
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Also, for ease of use when working with sections etc., activate the "Show open/close icon for cell groups" checkbox under Edit->Preferences. This adds a toggle chevron on the left side.
The frontend encourages/enforces you to break long code passages into smaller parts, which is not always a bad idea, especially for testing and debugging (although debugging in Mathematica is something of a sore point when you are used to other systems). Still, a solution for in-cell partitioning would be nice-to-have. There is also some option to format sections so that a click on their content toggles open/close instead of just the tiny triangle, but I can´t remember at the moment how that worked. Perhaps someone will chip in here. |
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