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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
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Subject: Re: THINK Pascal enhancements I'd like to see...
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Date: 27 Mar 90 00:05:49 GMT
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In article <1990Mar23.181237.27430@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> 
palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu (David Palmer) writes:
>What I'd like to see in the Think C editor is the ability to 'hide'
>nested code.  This would be done in a manner similar to an outline 
processor.

>I have heard that the editor which is used for Occam on transputers does 
this,
>but I have never seen this.

The Pascal GENIE from Carengie Mellon allows you to elide any syntactic 
construct.  When a construct is elided it is replaces with an ellipsis, 
and double-clicking it reveals the original code.  I suspect that this is 
a common feature in structured editors.

Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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