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brian@tadtec.uucp (brian kelly) writes:

>Has anyone out there written a folding editor implementation to run under
>Emacs ? I've been considering embarking on such a project, but if it's 
>already done I'd prefer to skip it.

There is a outline mode, but it is useless since it is a major mode.
A couple of days ago someone posted a outline minor
mode with Latex support. I was not able to get it to do anything sensible
in O(10) minutes.
Also, it is not clear (to me) how one can adapt that to say C. I tried
regexps for function declarations and if statements, but that did'nt work.

Implementing a good folding editor which is customisable for languages 
is probably a non-trivial endeavour given that most people like to format
code their own way. Folding editors I have seen insert characters
in files in order to do folding - that sucks.

I for one would be very happy with a good folding editor *minor* mode.
Do embark on the project, unless something better than outline exists.


Aamod Sane
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