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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Something NEW for a change?
Keywords: novelty, folding editors, xedit all command
Message-ID: <1403@argus.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 89 21:32:17 GMT
References: <559@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl> <567@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl> <1384@argus.UUCP> <580@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>
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In article <580@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>, ge@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers) writes:
: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng) writes:
: [Stuff about folding editors deleted]
: >Hm, is that like the xedit (VM/CMS) 'exclude' command?
[edit]
: 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.

Hm, the programming standards here dictate a documentation block of what
I generally term useless junk which I don't need to see when I'm coming on
from home at 1200 baud (yes I'm deprived).  When my xedit session fires up,
it checks if its a C source, if so it hides the documentation block for me
automantically.  I can see that its hidden because of the jump in the line
numbers, or I can do a 'shadow on' to see exactly where the lines are being
hidden and how many are hidden.  If I just issue 'file', the entire contents
are saved.  If I issue 'put' only the display contents are saved to file.
How hard is it?  The code fragment follows:

'extract/filetype'
if filetype == 'C' then do
   'top'
   'locate/$documenter'
   'exclude /$documenter'
   end

I don't consider that a lot of macro hacking.

Sometimes the Great Satan (IBM) does come up with a good idea.


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