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prob@btmp24.be (P. Roobrouck SH532 4554) writes:

> 1. Macro's ... record keystrokes into a single key is just fine.
> 
> 2. A feature, (I think it is) called "Folding". I mean a function that
> allows to HIDE in a lower hierarchical level, certain pieces of text.
> You mark a piece of code as a block, hit a key and it shrinks into a
> small token, you hit the token and it expands to full-size. This should
> be in multiple levels... This way you can better view the high-level
> structure of a program, by shrinking the details that are not important
> at that level.
> 
> If anyone knows such an editor, could you please inform me on where to
> find it.

ftp-os2.nmsu.edu

It's in the os2 archives there, called ae.??? or similar. But it also
comes in an MSDOS flavour as well as an OS/2 executable (compatible with
both 1.3x & 2.0). "ae" stands for "Andy's Editor". 

It's a nice editor in many ways, has both macros and folding, even
'virtual' folding so you can fold in files - which makes searching
multiple files very easy. After using it for many months I decided
to move on to other things anyway, mainly because my source files were
becoming large, and although it does handle > 64K just fine, it is a
little ill-behaved when short of memory; it tends to truncate files
without warning if it can't load it all in, which  I discovered
the hard way.  Otherwise the editor is fine, although the default
keybindings are pretty awful - just takes some time fooling with it
to "get it right". It doesn't handle tabbing well either, and the
options are either to use tabs=8 to insert 'hard tabs', or tabs=anything
else with spaces instead.  I prefer hard tabs and tabs=4 for C++
programming, so it didn't quite suit my taste, but I learned to live
with it.

Unfortunately the author doesn't seem to be contactable, since I tried
a couple of times, and also posted to this newsgroup to see if he could
be located, and nor are sources available. I would love to have fixed
a few things there, and I'd certainly still be using it if I could.

regards,

  david