Folding: Design Criteria, draft

[Bert Wesarg]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Randy Kramer <rhkramer at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > A next point I don't understand is, is it right, that the folding
>  > engine should also handle partial intersected folding regions?
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>  I'll have to think about that some more, unless my previous discussion
>  answered the question. I mean, in general, folding regions can overlap, and
>  nedit should handle such overlapping folding regions, but, trying to think of
>  the right words, I expect that overlap is sort of "normalized" or "proper",
>  sort of like, iirc, HTML markup can be "proper" (not the word I'm seaching
>  for, maybe I mean "properly nested").
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>  Trying other words, I expect all lower level folds in the hierarchy would end
>  at (and not extend beyond) the end of the highest level fold in the
>  hierarchy.
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>  If that is your question, I guess the next logical question is, would it be an
>  advantage to be able to handle such improperly nested folds, and, off the top
>  of my head, I'd say no.  I can think about it some more.
Ok, I was confused by the word 'overlap'. IMHO partial intersected
regions should be avoided by all costs, these are just plain wrong.

Bert
>  regards,
>  Randy Kramer