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From: achowe@tiger.waterloo.edu (CrackerJack)
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Subject: Folded release -- suggested adds for v1.0
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Date: 21 Jul 89 13:11:26 GMT
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My congrates to Todd Burkey for << Folded >>. I only just downloaded it
to my ST and found it a dream to use. Simple and easy to use. Unlike 
SEDT which tends to be on the large side and so big that it swamps the
user before he even reads the documentation, FOLDED v0.9 is great and
will be even greater with the coming enhancements. Just make sure the
editior doesn't blimp. Apart from that, I think I've found my one editor
for all machines (provided I send off for the source real soon).

Todd, some brief sugguestions:

1) Add to the GOTO LINE command '^' and '$' for begin and end of file.

2) The 'p' toggles seems to be stuck. J, K only ever do full page jumps
   never half pages which I thought 'p' was to toggle.

3) It might be nice if you made the first press of 'J' or 'K' take you
   to the bottom or top of the screen before actually doing a page
   jump. This way you could move to bottom/top of screen  in single
   key stokes rather than cursoring there.

4) For ATARI ST: maybe use of either ctrl-arrow or shift-arrow to do the
   functional equivalent of H, J, K, L.

5) One thing I noticed was that if when I read through the 
   FOLDED documentation as a folded file, I would open a section, read
   it, then would have to move back to the out indented heading to fold
   the section before I would move to the next section. My suggestion
   is to have a key to 'fold outer block'. So if your cursor is in a
   paragraph, then move up till you find an out indent, then do a
   regular 'f' or 'F'. This saves the user having to cursor to the top
   of a section, or drop marks on the section heading. 

I have not tried relations yet but I can see their use if done 
correctly to relate a makefile, the source, and include files. Neat.

As for the fold info being in a separate file, I like this as it is,
clean and never touches the original file (WordPerfect is a pain for
this, since you must go through specific motions to save a text file
and still keep the WP file around for future editing).

Again, Todd, thanks. Your editor I think will move to new heights and
already has me wanting to chuck << vi >> out the door.

- Ant

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