[editcontroller] a slight code reorganisation, in preparation for a fix
* `entity` defined at method entry
* a combined `continue` and a dedent of the next big block
* some vertical white space
Related to #8529868.
\.svn
^build$
^dist$
\.pyc$
\.pyo$
\.bak$
\.old$
\~$
\#.*?\#$
\.swp$
^doc/book/en/apidoc$
\.old$
syntax: regexp
.*/data/database/.*\.sqlite
.*/data/database/.*\.config
.*/data/database/tmpdb.*
.*/data/ldapdb/.*
^doc/html/
^doc/doctrees/
^doc/book/en/devweb/js_api/
data/pgdb/