MonoDevelop Tips: Code Focus

Code focus is a useful feature that helps to show the structure of your code. It’s activated by hovering over one of the fold markers in the text editor margin for a few seconds. The activated fold region and its parent regions are highlighted using graduated colour differences on the text editor background.

Code focus highlighting regions in the text
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Code focus can also be toggled on and off from the keyboard using the Control-Shift-K shortcut on Windows and Linux, or Cmd-Shift-K on Mac. When activated in this way it’s persistent until toggled off, and it follows the caret, highlighting whichever region it’s in.