Re: A proposal for the sectioning commands--addendum

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 12:01 PM 6/21/2002 -0400, John Culleton wrote:

> > * in editors that allow folding: proper folding of whole sections.
> >
> > Hans, do you think you can implement this easily?
>Addendum to my previous comments:
>
>I use folding in GVim by putting a ``stop'' command just before each
>``start'' commnad. this is clumsy but it is easier to remember than what
>Bilotti proposes. Better would be an editor that did this kind of controlling
>automatically. Here is a sample of what I must do currently:
>
>%--1
>\chapter{The Best of Breed Software Packages}
>%++1
>%--2
>\section{Operating Systems}
>%++2
>%--3
>\subsection{Linux}
>%++3
>
>The above is not elegant but with the proper setup in .vimrc it works.
>
>I perhaps need to create a Vim macro that would put the befores and afters
>on the tags. (e.g. %--2 before and %++2 after)
>
>Incidentally I use Context not because it is ``structured'' but because it
>implements features not found in other incarnations of TeX, like hanging
>punctuation and sidebars.

right from the start the context syntax has been influenced and has 
influenced the way we edit texts; here we use texedit which we wrote long 
ago (in modula 2); due to some problems under win2k (the os2 mem model is 
no longer supported so we cannot run sub jobs) we've rewritten this editor 
in perl/tk. We're now in the process of switching. Since this editor is 
under my control, i can tune it a bit to context and vise versa. Structure 
based navigation is part of the game.

Hans
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