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From: ge@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Something NEW for a change?
Keywords: novelty
Message-ID: <580@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 12 Dec 89 11:32:37 GMT
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Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng) writes:
[Stuff about folding editors deleted]
>Hm, is that like the xedit (VM/CMS) 'exclude' command?  Sometimes I want
>to compare two sections of code that have another section inbetween them.
>I just tell xedit not to show me from line A to line B.  Another funky use
>of it is I tell it to show me all lines with 'alpha' and not 'beta', kind
>of like a funky grep.

Something like that. If xedit were smart enough to find the end of a procedure/
module if I point at the beginning, AND it would give some indication what it
was hiding (the procedure header, for instance), AND it could save this along
with the text it would be a folding editor. A lot of macro-hacking would probably
do it.

Ge'


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