Folding: Design Criteria, draft

[Aaron Hsu]

Randy Kramer <rhkramer at gmail.com> writes:

>> I also notice that you seem to think that folds on a per line basis
>> are more common?
>
> That has been my experience.  It has some relevance when we go to the
> next step (discussing the back end storage to support folding) because
> one option that has been suggested to me might only support folding on
> a per line basis.  We'll have to discuss it more at that point if that
> is a viable option.

For sure, I would find per-line folding in NEdit almost useless for me,
because I edit deeply nested sets of parentheses (Lisp/Scheme code),
which means that I need to be able to fold against nested parentheses
regardless of where they are in a line. If a whole line is blocked out
there isn't enough granularity for me to do real work.

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