Do you like VS Code Regions ?

re: Do you like VS Code Regions ?

Wedgebert — Mon, 23 May 2005 22:10:47 GMT

We have a coding standard that requires the use of a few default regions. Basically you have a region for fields, properties, methods and constructors, then duplicate them so you have Instance and Static. Any custom region we want has to nested inside of those regions.

Finally we have to surround the class itself with a region.

The reason for all this is our boss likes to open a file up and only see one line "Region: Classname". Then when that region is expanded you only see the major categories of stuff.

It's a real pain and pointless abuse of regions.

re: Do you like VS Code Regions ?

Tobin Titus — Mon, 23 May 2005 22:46:44 GMT

here here! I was a former abuser of the Code regions. I thought, for the longest time that they helped to highlight code. I used to use them to distinguish between fields, properties, constructors, etc, but then went further and used regions to hide lengthy XmlComments. After I figured out how to get my xml comments out of the code I've decided I like clean code much more than highly-decorated code.

re: Do you like VS Code Regions ?

Heath Stewart — Mon, 23 May 2005 23:13:49 GMT

It's not only for VS. IIRC, #develop has this feature and I even updated the cs.vim script at http://vim.sourceforge.net to fold the first level of regions in vim (VI iMproved), my vanilla text editor of choice.