How to fold all comments in PyCharm

Question

I've recently been editing files with a lot of long comments. I find myself folding lots of them manually, is there a way to fold all of these at once, using some kind of menu entry or keyboard shortcut?

Alitta

Try Code | Folding | Collapse doc comments – Smashing

@Smashing Really strange but it didn't do anything for me, I tried 2 different projects, both with all text selected and no text selected. Does it usually work for you? This is pycharm 5.0.4. – Alitta

Answer 1

As of writing (version 2016.2.3) there's no way to collapse just comments.

The closest is the Code > Folding > Expand all to level menu items, but that folds everything by level. There are 5 levels available, with keyboard shortcuts:

• Ctrl+Shift+Numpad *, 1 (Press Ctrl+Shift+Numpad *, then press 1. On macOS substitute Command for Ctrl)

• Ctrl+Shift+Numpad *, 2

• Ctrl+Shift+Numpad *, 3

• Ctrl+Shift+Numpad *, 4

• Ctrl+Shift+Numpad *, 5

Aporia

Answer 2

I came to this question recently with the same one, but I've ince found it is possible to do this in recent pycharms. In pycharm 2020.3 (and possibly earlier versions, but that's the one I'm using), there is now an option to "Collapse Doc Comments", which appears to do what you need! It collapsed all the docstring comments in my file and ignored all other collapsible portions of code.

Code -> Folding -> Collapse Doc Comments

Richrichara

+1. From my first comment I don't think it worked many years ago, but it now appears to work fine for me, so guessing they fixed some bug. However it doesn't appear to work for long multi-line comments, which can be manually collapsed one-by-one. – Alitta

Answer 3

Press (Command) and +(key) to expand and use -(key) to collapse

Anet

Thanks, but I would like a solution for all comments. – Alitta

Goto Code>Folding and there you can select the level of folding which you prefer – Anet

Answer 4

try shift+ctrl+= Expand all folding regions.

Aloin