Folding - provide an option to NOT automatically unfold when user performs Find. : IDEA-80778

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Project	IntelliJ IDEA
Priority	Normal
Type	Usability Problem
Fix versions	No Fix versions
State	Submitted
Assignee	andrey zaytsev
Subsystem	Find, Replace, Find Usages
Affected versions	No Affected versions
Fixed in build	No Fixed in build

Created by Larry Gerndt
3 months ago (02 Feb 2012 22:25)
Updated by Denis Zhdanov
3 months ago (04 Feb 2012 15:14)

IDEA-80778 Folding - provide an option to NOT automatically unfold when user performs Find.

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The folding feature is truly helpful, but it has a fatal flaw: when user does a Find, IDEA automatically unfolds. I can understand the rationale, you're trying to prevent forehead slaps when user can't find what she knows is there but is folded. However, for the those of us who don't need to be hand-held, please provide an option to not auto-unfold on Find. Thank you! P.S. you guys rock.

Larry Gerndt

04 Feb 2012 04:09

3 months ago

P.S. IDEA's auto-unfolding is designed very well–it will only unfold the block that contains the found string. But if that block happens to be not a code block but a user-selected, very large region, then the user will be forced to re-select that large region again and re-fold it. This is why I think the option makes sense.