commented out lines break folding about simpylfold HOT 3 CLOSED

It would be fairly easy to add support for this case, but to be honest, I'd argue that it might be better just to fix your indentation. :)

The de facto standard Python style guide, PEP 8, states:

Block comments generally apply to some (or all) code that follows them, and are indented to the same level as that code.

Making comments flush with the left margin when they are nested inside of indented definitions is unusual.

Everyone has their own style, of course, and we can add special cases to SimpylFold to handle all sorts of variations on the standard format. But that's really an exercise in futility; there will always be more subtle variations that people can come up with. Without writing a full-fledged Python parser in VimScript, we'll never be able to handle them all. I think it's best for this plugin to expect PEP 8-formatted code, and to only add special cases for deviations from that style when the deviations are very common, or when the failure mode is particularly problematic (like sending Vim into an infinite loop).

However, if you simply can't live with this restriction, I'll see what I can do. And patches are always welcome, of course.

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I have a habit of temporarily commenting out bits of code like this while I'm debugging stuff:

def somefunc(...):
    do_this()
##  do_that()
    do_this_again()

I like it because it doesn't change the indentation of the commented-out code, and because it's easy to comment/uncomment in vim with 0R##<esc> or 0R<space><space><esc>. (The hash-mark is doubled to make it explicit that this is a bit of temporarily-commented-out code, and not a real comment.)

I never commit commented-out code, so I don't consider it a PEP-8 violation ;)

Anyway, if I switch to SimpylFold instead of my hacky foldexpr, I'll have to see if I can create a patch for this.

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