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- From: s.telford@ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
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- Subject: Re: New ftp location for the folding editor Origami
- Keywords: origami
- Message-ID: <42003@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 10:55:36 GMT
- References: <9208153116@gandalf.moria> <1992Aug19.134345.9845@wheaton.wheaton.edu>
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- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, UK.
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- In article <1992Aug19.134345.9845@wheaton.wheaton.edu>,
- gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber) writes:
-
- > What is a folding editor?
-
- A text editor that structures files in a hierarchical tree structure.
- At each level the branches ("folds") are usually shown as single lines
- (with some fold marker to show that they're folds, not just lines) and
- the editor has functions to expand a fold line into the contents of
- the branch, and to collapse the current fold and go back to the
- next level up. The only special formatting requirements for the files
- are beginning- and end-of-fold marker strings.
-
- This is a simplified and inadequate description, you really need to
- use one before you get a feel for the concept.
-
- I think the first folding editor was the one (written in occam 1!)
- that came with the old INMOS occam Programming System. (Does
- anymbody know of pre-INMOS folding editors?) The later INMOS
- Transputer Development System had a similar editor built-in, and the
- original version of Origami (totally unlike the current one, thanks to
- Michael) was a clone of this. There's at least one other one, AE
- (Andy's Editor), a free/shareware DOS text editor.
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