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hop-frog
12-23-2003, 09:21 PM
I think I saw text editor (maybe it was an IDE) in a screenshot, described as:

Each line or group of lines had a little "+" button to its left. When clicked, the button would be replaced by a "-" symbol and all of the lines in that group would disappear, except for the first line in the group. This way, when you are working on large files, you can simply shade parts of the file that you aren't working on so there is less stuff to scroll through. See below:

[+] Here is some text
in group 1.
[+] Here is some text
in group 2.Now with the first line shaded:[-] Here is some text
[+] Here is some text
in group 2.

ViMan
12-24-2003, 05:01 PM
What you are referring to is known as 'folding' and several text editors can do this. Vim is one such editor (here's are 2 screenshots of folding under Vim: http://cream.sourceforge.net/screenshots7-closeup.html & http://cream.sourceforge.net/screenshots5-closeup.html)

juicelooser
12-24-2003, 05:25 PM
Kate does that as well.