Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: S.V.Demiralp@ukc.ac.uk (svd)
Subject: Re: Folding Editors
Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 97 16:12:05 GMT
Message-ID: <191@mint.ukc.ac.uk>


'origami' folding editor can be one answer to YAE (Yet Another Editor!).
It is free software, developed by a number of people at different places 
and at different times. The version 1.7.1 of origami is available in
Hensa archives at

    http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/tools/editors/folding-editors/ 

However, this version is buggy and can be painful to use. 
I have assumed to chase the bugs and add some useful facilities.
This voluntary work has yielded a robust and professional-like version,
say, version 2.0.

We have been using the new version for quite a long time here at 
Kent University but only on vt220 type terminals. So far we are happy 
with it (of course "wouldn't it be nice if..." list never becomes short).
For X-windows we have a vt220 emulator software 'Xwrapper' which is
un-supported and hard to use on platforms other than SunOS.

I've decided to sort terminal dependency problem out before putting 
origami v2.0 up for release. There will be a universal key mapping and
a support for user-defined key mapping. Another reason for the delay
of the release is because of my un-necessarily perfectionist approach.

The good news is that, my hands are on this work these days and very
shortly I will announce the release of the long awaited 'origami v2.0'. 
Watch this space.

Vedat Demiralp   
Computing Lab.,   University of Kent,  Canterbury CT2 7NF,   UK
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