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- From: davidn@csource.oz.au (david nugent)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: WANTED : Folding Editor for DOS
- Keywords: Editor, Dos
- Message-ID: <6023ZB4w165w@csource.oz.au>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 11:50:04 +1100
- References: <1993Jan19.085733@btmp24.be>
- Reply-To: davidn@csource.oz.au
- Organization: Unique Computing Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
- Lines: 47
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- prob@btmp24.be (P. Roobrouck SH532 4554) writes:
-
- > 1. Macro's ... record keystrokes into a single key is just fine.
- >
- > 2. A feature, (I think it is) called "Folding". I mean a function that
- > allows to HIDE in a lower hierarchical level, certain pieces of text.
- > You mark a piece of code as a block, hit a key and it shrinks into a
- > small token, you hit the token and it expands to full-size. This should
- > be in multiple levels... This way you can better view the high-level
- > structure of a program, by shrinking the details that are not important
- > at that level.
- >
- > If anyone knows such an editor, could you please inform me on where to
- > find it.
-
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu
-
- It's in the os2 archives there, called ae.??? or similar. But it also
- comes in an MSDOS flavour as well as an OS/2 executable (compatible with
- both 1.3x & 2.0). "ae" stands for "Andy's Editor".
-
- It's a nice editor in many ways, has both macros and folding, even
- 'virtual' folding so you can fold in files - which makes searching
- multiple files very easy. After using it for many months I decided
- to move on to other things anyway, mainly because my source files were
- becoming large, and although it does handle > 64K just fine, it is a
- little ill-behaved when short of memory; it tends to truncate files
- without warning if it can't load it all in, which I discovered
- the hard way. Otherwise the editor is fine, although the default
- keybindings are pretty awful - just takes some time fooling with it
- to "get it right". It doesn't handle tabbing well either, and the
- options are either to use tabs=8 to insert 'hard tabs', or tabs=anything
- else with spaces instead. I prefer hard tabs and tabs=4 for C++
- programming, so it didn't quite suit my taste, but I learned to live
- with it.
-
- Unfortunately the author doesn't seem to be contactable, since I tried
- a couple of times, and also posted to this newsgroup to see if he could
- be located, and nor are sources available. I would love to have fixed
- a few things there, and I'd certainly still be using it if I could.
-
- regards,
-
- david
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