'Toggle Visual Editor': Collapse permanently by default? (like 'Collapsible Fields')

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In the olden days I was using the Collapsible Fields add-on; it has an option to collapse fields by default.

Nowadays, would there be away to achieve this behaviour via the ‘Toggle Visual Editor’ button; i.e. to more or less permanently hide fields that are used only occasionally?

Greetings … :wink:

P.S. just saw this, haven’t found a noobcompatible answer there …

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@hengiesel has talked about this in the following thread:

He’d like to implement a default setting (e.g. set in the Fields dialog), which would persist between sessions, but gets reset to its default when you have manually toggled it within a session (i.e. while adding cards) and then reopen the editor.

So far, he hasn’t gotten around to it, but it is on the roadmap.

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TBH, I feel that quite a number of these decisions could be simply put in the preferences, instead of making a single decision for all users, that may not fit everyone. In both cases, you have to implement the new behavior, but if you put in the preferences a way to go back to how it was before, you also keep the previous version, so it should not require too much extra work.

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Thanks for your replies!

I know, different people would have different ‘penchants’; for me, I’d be happy if the exact behaviour of above mentioned add-on could be duplicated; i.e. I do NOT want to have to RE-collapse unnecessary fields that I’m not going to enter anything into during this session, and which clutter the editor.

(No, I can’t delete these fields; there are needed occasionally.)