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An example of text folding within Vim. The list in the text is shown folded (above) and unfolded (below).

A folding editor is a text editor which supports text folding or code folding, a mechanism allowing the user to hide and reveal blocks of text—usually named. Typically this is done to allow the user to better picture the overall structure of a document or program. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Code folding is a feature of some text editors, program source code editors and IDEs that allows the user to selectively hide and display sections of a currently-edited file as a part of routine edit operations. ... Image File history File links Text_folding_example. ... Vim, which stands for Vi IMproved, is an open source, multiplatform text editor extended from vi. ... Notepad is the standard text editor for Microsoft Windows A text editor is a piece of computer software for editing plain text. ... Code folding is a feature of some text editors, program source code editors and IDEs that allows the user to selectively hide and display sections of a currently-edited file as a part of routine edit operations. ...

Folding is provided by many modern text editors, and syntax-based or semantics-based folding is now a component of many software development environments. Code folding is a feature of some text editors, program source code editors and IDEs that allows the user to selectively hide and display sections of a currently-edited file as a part of routine edit operations. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

History

The first folding editor was probably STET, an editor written for the VM/CMS operating system in 1977 by Mike Cowlishaw. STET is a text editor (for documentation, programs, etc.) which folds files on the basis of blocks of lines; any block of lines can be folded and replaced by a name line (which in turn can be part of a block which itself can then be folded). VM/CMS (Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System, originally called CP/CMS when it first appeared) is a bundled pair of operating systems used on IBM System/360, System/370, System/390, zSeries, and System z9 mainframes (and compatible systems). ... Mike Cowlishaw is an IBM Fellow based at IBM UK’s Warwick location, a Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (roughly the equivalent of the NAE in the USA). ...

Folding editors appeared in the original occam IDE at around 1983, called Inmos Transputer Development System.^{[citation needed]} Occam is a parallel programming language that builds on Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) and shares many of their features. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Macintosh computer historically had a number of source code editors that "folded" portions of code via "disclosure triangles". The UserLand Software product Frontier is a scripting environment that has this capability.^[1] The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Progressive disclosure is an interaction design technique often used in human computer interaction to help maintain the focus of a users attention by reducing clutter, confusion, and cognitive workload. ... UserLand Software is a US software company founded by Dave Winer, who co-developed the XML-RPC protocol with Microsoft in 1995. ...

Editors with folding capability

Many text editors provide folding capability. Among them are:

Dvořák is a common Czech surname (feminine form is Dvořáková). Spelling without diacritics is Dvorak. ... Emacs is a class of text editors, possessing an extensive set of features, that are popular with computer programmers and other technically proficient computer users. ... Eclipse is an open-source, platform-independent software framework, written primarily in Java, for delivering what the project calls rich-client applications, as opposed to thin client browser-based applications. ... EmEditor is a full-featured Windows text editor with source code syntax highlighting and support for regular expressions. ... jEdit is a text editor for programmers available under the GNU General Public License. ... In computing, Kate is a text editor for KDE. The acronym Kate stands for KDE advanced text editor. Kate has been part of the kdebase package since KDE release 2. ... KWrite 4. ... OED stands for Oxford English Dictionary Office of Enrollment & Discipline This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the Microsoft Windows environment. ... SciTE under Windows SciTE or SCIntilla based Text Editor is a cross-platform text editor written by Neil Hodgson using the Scintilla editing component. ... TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor for Mac OS X. It provides users with innovative abstractions to support declarative customizations which are at once transparent and flexible. ... Vim, which stands for Vi IMproved, is an open source, multiplatform text editor extended from vi. ... Microsoft Visual Studio is a series of IDEs by Microsoft. ... A visual editor for VM/CMS using block mode IBM 3270 terminals. ... Zeus is a general-purpose, highly configurable, fully scriptable IDE specifically designed for Windows software developers. ...

See also

• Code folding

Code folding is a feature of some text editors, program source code editors and IDEs that allows the user to selectively hide and display sections of a currently-edited file as a part of routine edit operations. ...

References

1. ^ Outliners.com. Retrieved on 2006-12-27.

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External links

• What is a folding editor? by the author of the fe editor.
• Description of the folding editor used in occam.