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From: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Folded release
Message-ID: <1989Jul5.150226.24149@stag.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 89 15:02:26 GMT
Organization: Mindtools ST Access Group
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I am posting this message to let everyone who sent me mail know that
the FOLDED sources were sent off to the comp.sources.unix moderator
about 3-4 weeks ago. I also sent off the binaries for the atari.st
and ibm.pc groups at that time. In the past, it has usually taken
about a month to get things posted, so the stuff should be arriving
any time now.

The version that is coming over the net should be FOLDED 0.9d. This
version is very stable, since I used it on several BSD systems for
several months prior to release. On the backburners, I've rewritten
the user interface already in 0.9e, providing toggle'able 'vi-like'
or 'emacs-like' modes for those people who really hate the 'vi-like'
moded editors. This interim release also allows key remapping. I don't
plan on making another official release of FOLDED until 1.0, but there
is info in the 0.9d release notes on how to get updates.

For those of you who missed earlier postings, FOLDED is a folding editor
that implements a text folding feature similar to that used in many
thought processor programs. I geared FOLDED for use primarily for source
code editing, although I find that I also use it in place of my thought
processor programs (i.e. Think-Tank on the PC, Planner, etc). FOLDED
also has some relational, 'hypertext-like', capabilities. These allow
you to relate lines of source code to lines of documentation and even
provide a 'glossary' concept for structures and variables. And, of
course, FOLDED has the basic plethoria of must-have screen editor
features plus snazzy things like dynamic/variable search, box/region
cut and copy, easy multi-buffer editing, and key training.

FOLDED isn't intended to be the do-it-all type editor, so people who are
addicted to emacs may just want to look at integrating the basic folding
and relational features of FOLDED into emacs. I looked into doing this
with LISP macros a long time ago and decided the end result would be too
bulky and slow (I don't have a real fast Unix system), plus I wanted the
exact same editor functionality on all the computers I use (PC's as well
as Unix boxes). If anyone does hack or patch these features into emacs,
though, let me know...I don't mind being proven wrong.
 
  -Todd Burkey
   pwcs!stag!trb