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From: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.editors,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Folding Editor - Comments Anyone?
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Date: 18 Apr 89 14:29:12 GMT
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Reply-To: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Organization: Mindtools ST Access Group, Plymouth, MN
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In article <3769@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) writes:
>Sounds real nice.  How about making some use of more than one
>special screen attribute?  Like inverted *and* underlined *and* ...
>For instance, indexed words might appear underlined.

Folded actually has the routines in it to do so, since my prototype
was on the Atari ST and used colors as well as reverse video. When I
moved it to Unix, however, I found that some terminals (like my Wyse
50) don't handle underlining/standout very well. Some terminals use
an extra character position on the screen just to show that you are
entering or exiting reverse video or underlining, so it gets messy if
you wanted a line to contain both...it is bad enough dealing with just
reverse video. I do plan on looking into this problem, though.

What are indexed words? Key words, maybe?

>Can you have null folds, in case you just want a line to stand out?

No, I decided that would be too confusing from a human interface point
of view...you want to train your eyes to think that a highlighted line
represents a hidden block of text. Always, not just sometimes. On the
other hand, if you had colors...

NOTE: Several people have asked about a ship date for folded...I
      should mention that up until yesterday morning I was planning to
      release the first version at the end of April. Unfortunately,
      CDC shut down ETA yesterday, so I am suddenly unemployed.
      What this means is that I won't be able to do any real-time
      testing on Suns, Apollos, or SysVR3. It also means I will be
      busy job-hunting, so either the release will slip or I will
      post it with some 'extra' checking built into the code.

  -Todd Burkey
   trb@stag.UUCP          "note...  eta.com no longer exists..."