michael@trigraph.UUCP (Michael Winser) (02/02/88)
Does anyone out there have source to a folding editor? Ideally I would like changes to jove or some other emacs like editor. Michael. -- ...utscri!trigraph!michael Michael Winser michael@trigraph.UUCP Trigraph Inc. 5 Lower Sherbourne St. #201 (416) 363-8841 Toronto,Ontario M5R 3H8
michael@trigraph.UUCP (Michael Winser) (02/05/88)
In article <358@trigraph.UUCP> michael@trigraph.UUCP (Michael Winser) writes: that's me! :-) >Does anyone out there have source to a folding editor? ... Judging by the response received ("What's a folding editor"), I guess I should explain: A folding editor allows you to "fold" several lines of text into a single line (usually displayed as the first folded line). Many outline processors (if not all) use a similar approach. The difference between an outline processor and a folding editor is that the folding editor imposes no knowledge of structure upon the folded text. I believe that one of the original folding editors was at cmu, but I could be wrong. I hope this clarifies my request. Michael -- ...utscri!trigraph!michael Michael Winser michael@trigraph.UUCP Trigraph Inc. 5 Lower Sherbourne St. #201 (416) 363-8841 Toronto,Ontario M5R 3H8
dupuy@westend.columbia.edu (Alexander Dupuy) (02/09/88)
In article <362@trigraph.UUCP> michael@trigraph.UUCP (Michael Winser) writes: >A folding editor allows you to "fold" several lines of text into a single line >(usually displayed as the first folded line). You might want to look at outline-mode in Gnu Emacs. Folded lines are marked by ^M (CR) where ordinary lines are marked with ^J (NL). Setting the elisp variable selective-display to t turns this feature on. The outline mode which uses this supports an outline-regexp variable that allows you to specify the format of header vs. body lines. This allows you to customize the outlines for the particular structure you are using. @alex --- arpanet: dupuy@columbia.edu uucp: ...!rutgers!columbia!dupuy
jkh@pcsbst.UUCP (jkh) (04/23/89)
Hmmm. Ok, I guess I can give you what amounts to a 2 part comment since my initial reaction to your posting was somewhat bi-partisan. First off, I like the basic concepts quite a bit. The implementation will no doubt leave a few things to be desired, but that can be remedied in time. My first thought was that FOLDED would be highly useful for viewing various large unix packages that we all know and love that make heavy use of #ifdefs for portability. Wouldn't it be nice if you only saw the code that would actually be compiled for your machine... Well, it seems from reading your document that folds can only be created interactively, which kind of queers that. If you had, say, some mechanism for invoking a process on the current file/buffer that would return a list of regions to "fold" (say a starting and ending line) I could then whip up a shell script that would do something like: Run the current file through cpp with all the important macros *undefined*. Duplicate the output and run cpp on the duplicate copy with all macros defined. Chew through the original output and the new output with diff -c. Generate the "folds" based on which lines diff has marked with '-'. Several years later (:-) I would get a buffer with all the failing #ifdef's folded out. One could even put each #include in a fold, to be expanded if the user actually needed to see what was pulled in. Naturally, I'm not proposing that you add this *exact* type of mechanism, only that you provide some means of interacting with the outside world so that such mechanisms can be implemented. If you've ever worked with a program as heavily #ifdef'd as, say, kcl or GNU emacs you'll know that this feature can make the difference between solving a problem or just throwing up your hands in disgust as your brain's stack overflows. A generalized communications mechanism would also allow other utilities to make join/relation decisions for FOLDED as well. I realize that you also want this to run on your atari ST (which didn't have multi-tasking last I looked), but it seems a shame to hamstring UNIX sites for that reason alone.. You could always, uh, #ifdef it in. My second and more predictable reaction was: "What?? What for you want me to learn *another* editor?? Get Real!". Naturally, this subsided after awhile, but this is going to be a major stumbling block. I currently use GNU emacs which does 99.5% of everything I want to do. My first (and possibly my final) reaction was to ponder how to implement the same functionality in E-Lisp. However, if you can't bring the mountain to Mohammed, why not strive for greater EMACS (or at least vi) compatibility in FOLDED? It seems that its major strengths lie in additional functionailty, not clever new ways of binding the keys. I don't see how you would lose much (or anything) by following the beaten path. I don't think the fact that it uses the quarter-plane text model or text panning rather than wrapping will be a serious problem, I'm more interested in just having the basic keystrokes work. I'm curious. Other than learning, what motivated you to write an entire new editor rather than just adding the relation/folding code to an existing one? It's what I would have done (can you imagine the splash that a folding version of vi would have made? Yow). Jordan Hubbard PCS Computer Systems Munich, West Germany UUCP: {pyramid,unido}!pcsbst!jkh ARPA: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu
garg@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Pankaj Garg) (06/22/89)
Sometime ago a news article on this group advertized the existence of a folding editor. Can someone please let me know where this editor now exists. Thanx... ...pankaj Pankaj Garg, HP Labs, 1501 Page Mill Rd., CA 94303 (415)857-4709
trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey ) (07/18/90)
In article <436@keele.keele.ac.uk> cca04@.uk.ac.keele (P.J. Mitchell) writes: >So does anybody out there know of a version of the folding editor that >will work on ASCII files rather than the odd format that the one supplied >by Meiko/Sension/Inmos does ? I posted a version of my folding editor (FOLDED) to the net over a year ago, so it is probably still bouncing around the archive servers. I have a slightly newer version that I should probably post soon that supports the IBM PC (Turbo C), the Atari ST (MWC), and a variety of Unix flavors. I haven't had to make any code changes to it for a year now, so it is pretty stable. It will work on any type of text file and also supports multi-file relations, simple to understand multi-buffer operations, etc. Let me know if you have trouble getting hold of the posted version. I just finished porting my HDSCAN package to the PC, so will probably find time to re-post folded to comp.sources.misc in the coming months. -Todd Burkey pwcs!stag!trb
einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) (07/20/90)
In article <1990Jul18.042817.9247@stag.UUCP> trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey ) writes: >I posted a version of my folding editor (FOLDED) to the net over a >year ago, so it is probably still bouncing around the archive servers. >now, so it is pretty stable. It will work on any type of text file and also >supports multi-file relations, simple to understand multi-buffer Please don't use the *8TH BIT* for commands or controls. Please don't mask the *8TH BIT*. Please allow us here in Iceland to use it as well, (and the rest of Europe.) If you allow the use of the *8TH BIT* then you have my gratitude in advance, wheter I will use it or not. -- I just learned a new curse: "You #$@! son of SCROLLBAR!" Internet: einari@rhi.hi.is | 'Just give me my command line and throw UUCP: ..!mcsun!isgate!rhi!einari | the GUIs in the dust-bin!!!!!!!!!'