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by JonK
Wed Jul 30, 2003 3:22 pm
Forum: Enhancement Suggestions
Topic: Expand/Collapse blocks of text
Replies: 63
Views: 523666

Nah...

... hidden data ... MS Big Brother techniques... rather hide things from you than have them readily accessible ... Palladium... Tin-foil hat? Mine's the one over there ----> thanks :-) (really, is RegEdit any more difficult to use than vi and the mess that is /etc. And as for these so-called "...
by JonK
Thu Jul 24, 2003 2:06 pm
Forum: Enhancement Suggestions
Topic: Expand/Collapse blocks of text
Replies: 63
Views: 523666

Textpad is a text editor, not a word processor... In the textfile NOTHING must be stored besides the text. If folding status were stored within the text file, it would ruin the text files. What should a browser do with folding information within a html file? Or a perl interpreter with folding infor...
by JonK
Wed Jul 16, 2003 9:48 am
Forum: Enhancement Suggestions
Topic: Expand/Collapse blocks of text
Replies: 63
Views: 523666

Two observations...

Firstly, this fits quite nicely alongside the "highligh matching bracket" functionality that's being asked for: if you're already maintaining a stack of "brackets" (be it {} pairs, or <tag> </tag>) internally, you can automagically generate folding points from these. However, I'd...
by JonK
Wed Jul 16, 2003 9:40 am
Forum: Enhancement Suggestions
Topic: Show matching brackets
Replies: 27
Views: 6326

Work with it....

Well, you could use this as a warning light - if you can't see the matching bracket glow then it's probably time to refactor your code :wink:

This doesn't work quite so well for <html> </html> tag pairs mind...