One of the things I love about vising irc.freenode.net #emacs is that helping people with their questions lets me discover all sorts of cool things about Emacs. Today's nugget? hideshow.el, which allows you to automatically hide / show code. (Equivalent of vim folding).

I've added the following code to my config:

(load-library "hideshow")
(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook
          (lambda () (hs-minor-mode 1)
            (hs-hide-all)
            (set (make-variable-buffer-local 'my-hs-hide) t)))
(defvar my-hs-hide t "Current state of hideshow for toggling all.")
;;;###autoload
(defun my-toggle-hideshow-all ()
  "Toggle hideshow all."
  (interactive)
  (set (make-variable-buffer-local 'my-hs-hide) (not my-hs-hide))
  (if my-hs-hide
      (hs-hide-all)
    (hs-show-all)))
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c @ @") 'my-toggle-hideshow-all)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c @ h") 'hs-hide-block)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c @ s") 'hs-show-block)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c @ SPC") 'hs-show-block)

Sweet.

… and then I find that I already have a
hideshow config, of course, and that
I added it on 2003.11.21… <bonk>!

Random Emacs symbol: timezone-parse-date – Function: Parse DATE and return a vector [YEAR MONTH DAY TIME TIMEZONE].