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From: jellson@stsusa.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Looking for editor which hides lines indented more than x levels
Message-ID: <3476@stsusa.com>
Date: 5 Oct 89 22:22:05 GMT
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Organization: Siemens Transmission Systems, Albuquerque, NM
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In <3909@blake.acs.washington.edu>, dlarson@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dale Larson) writes:
> I would like to find an editor which will allow me to look at just the
> top level routines in a program by hiding lines with more than a certain
> number of tabs at the begining.  I think that I have seen such an editor
> before, but do not have any idea what it was.
 
XEDIT on IBM mainframes had the ability to selectively hide lines.  Then with
the aid of REXX you could write macros to hide lines according to any criterea
you liked, such as indentation.

I too would really like to see this feature in an Amiga editor such as TxEd or
CygnusED.

I used it all the time to display only those lines in a file that
contained a given string so that I could see that stringin context before
selectively making changes.


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