Folding: Design Criteria, draft

[Aaron Hsu]

"Bert Wesarg" <bert.wesarg at googlemail.com>
writes:

> 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.
>
> 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.

Just as an end-user who happens to read this list, could I possibly pop
in and give my opinion? If all of you were to work towards some kind of
code folding, I really like the code folding available in BBEdit from
Bare Bones software. I find it simple, elegant, and useful. Maybe, you
could take a look at that?

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