Folding editor

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2 total messages Started by Andy Raine , RCR1 Mon, 11 Dec 1989 21:18

#454

Author: Andy Raine , RCR1
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1989 21:18

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Too right!!!  A flexible folding editor would be a godsend for all of us.  
Especially if it could be used in conjunction with conventional compilers, 
source-control systems etc.  But, no joy.  There was a set of macros for 
microEMACS knocking around about a year ago, but they weren't much cop.  A 
set of real macros for grownUpEMACS was promised, but what happened to them? 
(I think it was the some at INMOS who were supposed to be working on them, 
but I can't remember.)  I found a folding editor for the PC on the 
Lancaster PD software server, but I didn't like it much -- too complicated 
to use, and it needed a separate file to keep the folding information in.
Finally, one of the INMOS reps at the stand at the PC user show at Olympia in 
'88 recommended the use of an 'outliner' package.  Again, not easily used 
with compilers, etc.

So ... where do we go?  What I would like (but my C isn't up to it) would 
be TDS - style folding built in to microEMACS (not just macros).  Anyone 
out there prepared to take up the challenge?

Andy

Re: Folding editor

#455

Author: James Price Salsman
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1989 00:08

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Gnu-Emacs' outline mode is as close to the TDS' folding
editor as any free software I've seen.  If you hack on
it for a while you will easily be able to duplicate all
of the TDS' functions.

:James

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