folding

I have some big messy SQL procedures that I'm debugging, and they tend to have a lot of heavily nested parentheses: SELECT * FROM (SELECT F1,F2 FROM TABLE1 AS X LEFT JOIN (SELECT F9,F8 FROM (SELECT F13,F14 FROM TABLE4) AS J INNER JOIN TABLE3 ON...) AS B ON X.F1=B.F9) AS X1 I'm looking for an editor that can automatically mark and optionally collapse/fold each parentheses set to ease reading, e.g. SELECT * FROM ... AS X1 SELECT * FROM (SELECT F1,F2 FROM TABLE1 AS X LEFT JOIN ... AS B ON X.F1=B.F9) AS X1 I can do this in Visual Studio by repeatedly hitting ctrl-shift-] to select a set, and then

There are plenty of ways to fold code in Emacs and I've settled in on using the outline minor mode... it works great! However, I really want my folding to be persisted when I close and re-open files. It is quite frustrating to have folding set up in a file the way I like it, only to have that lost when I restart Emacs. Has anyone found a way to keep the folding state of a file persistent? Edit: Now that I understand the question... How about something like the following nippet of code. It seems to work for me, though I haven't figured out how to avoid being prompted for the file local variable

I have found that code-folding helps me organize my files better. Thus, at the bottom of my ~/.vimrc , I enable vim code folding by default: ""Folding set foldmethod=indent set foldnestmax=2 nnoremap <space> za vnoremap <space> zf "set nofoldenable "set this to disable folding on file open This has the advantages of using SPACE to toggle folds at the cursor, or if they start to annoy me I can use z R to unfold everything. However, I'm also addicted to syntax highlighting. I use Dmitry Vasiliev's python.vim , but it doesn't highlight syntax in a fold line: The lack of syntax highlighting for