[2005] vb.net outlining mode

[MaslowB]

I believe it's called outlining mode that you see in vb.net 2005, where you can shrink sections of code using the - or open more details back using +.

Are there any text editors that enable this sort of thing? or what's a good way whether text editor, web, or otherwise that I could do this?

I would like to write much of my code ( change log documentation, technical specs, user documentation) this way.

Just like Vb.net 2005 does on the sections of code that supports this type of drill down into more detail on a change, and then snap it back to the summary.

Any ideas on a way to do this?

[kleinma]

You are talking about code regions, and I don't know of any text editors that fully support them. I do know some text editors support them for certain text types. I use a text editor called Notepad++ which is a free open source app.

It supports tons of lanuages for syntax highlighting and other features.

So for example, if you were to use it, set the language to C#, and you type a curley brace { you will get the +/- regions because it knows C# uses them. However for standard text, there is no identifier it can use to know when and where to have the regions. As a side note, setting the language to VB and trying to use the region keywords doesn't work.

The real problem is the fact that the regions are really just a feature of the VB IDE, it knows when to make the +/- based on predefined rules of the languages.