From: Stephen Maudsley Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.sys.transputer Subject: Re: Folding editors Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:28:29 +0000 Organization: esgem limited Message-Id: <3639BEFD.2CC25E3C@esgem.com> References: <36374B57.168B9492@pact.srf.ac.uk> <71aj0c$oc$1@fangorn.moria.de> <6r1znq7264.fsf@belhaven.spider.com> Reply-To: Stephen.Maudsley@esgem.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: ukc comp.editors:31993 comp.sys.transputer:8887 Iain A F Fleming wrote: > The entity calling itself Michael Haardt wrote: > > > > If you are out for X11 support, then check GNU Emacs with outline > > mode (http://www.csd.uu.se/~andersl/emacs.shtml). > > There is also a reasonably worked folding mode for GNU Emacs - foldingo, > by Christian Queinnec, of INRIA. It can probably be found at all good ftp > sites, but if not, I'll email a copy to anyone who wants to see it. > > It what I used to cope with folded files when I was working at inmos/ST. > I do, however, hold to the view that folding is evil, and leads to the > creation of poorly structured, monolithic, programs. Why do you consider that to be the case? Certainly I've seen code where scoping of variables has been so convoluted that it was unmaintainable. -- Stephen Maudsley mailto:Stephen.Maudsley@esgem.com Esgem Limited for electronic product design http://www.esgem.com Tel: +44-1453-521626 Mobile: +44-370-810991