Folding: Design Criteria, draft

[Bert Wesarg]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Joachim Lous <joachim at lous.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Randy Kramer <rhkramer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Attached is an early draft of my criteria for folding.
>
>  I've read the brief.  Its a good stating point, but a bit heavy on the
>  GUI stuff and a
>  bit light on the hard parts of how a folded region actually bahaves.
>
>  There can indeed be a myriad critereia for creating a foldable region (syntax,
>  manual selection, macro script, saved state, whatever), but they will
>  all use the
>  same basic interface to the text widget to actually create it, and
>  once that is made
>  and made well, we can experiment with sources, rendering and interaction styles.
That was my first impression too. But without a goal what is needed in
the end, you don't know what to implement internally. Randy has the
view of a user, and at least me thinks only in implementation details.

For example, I haven't consider this 'hierarchical' folding thing,
only 'nested' folding.
Because I programming most, but for text processing (HTML,LaTeX,wiki)
this 'hierarchical' folding is of more value.

Bert