Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.sys.transputer From: Paul O Bartlett Subject: Re: Folding editors In-Reply-To: <6rvhkw20nk.fsf@belhaven.spider.com> Message-Id: References: <36374B57.168B9492@pact.srf.ac.uk> <71aj0c$oc$1@fangorn.moria.de><6r1znq7264.fsf@belhaven.spider.com> <3639BEFD.2CC25E3C@esgem.com><6r4ssm59ay.fsf@belhaven.spider.com><6rhfwi4ee6.fsf@belhaven.spider.com> <363EEB84.5CAD538B@roke.co.uk> <6rvhkw20nk.fsf@belhaven.spider.com> Return-Receipt-To: pobart@access.digex.net Organization: Express Access Private Account Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:15:55 -0500 Xref: ukc comp.editors:32049 comp.sys.transputer:8906 Perhaps we might need clarification on just what is meant by a "folding editor." Some editors, such as XEDIT and KEDIT and possibly THE, allow you to specify "Only display and operate on lines which do or do not meet such-and-such criteria." Other lines get "folded" out of sight and out of susceptibility to many editing tasks. Nothing gets imbedded in the file as such by the operation, and if the file is saved without further activity, it is unchanged. The "folding" operation can then be reversed and the entire file is displayed again and available for general work on all lines, less, of course, any activity that might have been done on "unfolded" lines. These editors can be very powerful when doing certain operations on plain text structured as lines. Other "folding" editors actually embed some sort of folding controls in the file itself, usually, I suppose, in code comments. Such editors would actually be damaging to a text file which may have nothing to do with program code. -- Paul .......................................................... Paul O. Bartlett, P.O. Box 857, Vienna, VA 22183-0857, USA Finger, keyserver, or WWW for PGP public key Home Page: http://www.access.digex.net/~pobart