From: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
To: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
C K Kashyap <ckkashyap@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Arbitrary folding in emacs
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 13:26:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnwqa4qt.fsf@yahoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHa53uxKMw4tiyrFJLSU0UZ+mFvcyiLfMWBwpEpgE2X6xCASrA@mail.gmail.com> (Tim Visher's message of "Fri, 28 Mar 2014 07:45:53 -0400")
Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> writes:
> I too would be interested in being able to hide away a region as vim
> is capable of, but I've never heard of a feature like that in Emacs.
> It might be a very useful extension to hs-minor-mode.
outline.el has outline-flag-region, but
(i) it doens't use an ellipsis and
(ii) it is not interactive.
you can test it by selecting some part of the buffer then
M-: (progn (outline-flag-region (region-beginning) (region-end) t) (sit-for 4) (outline-flag-region (region-beginning) (region-end) nil))
(sit-for is just there to see the effect before cancelling it with the
'nil' 3rd argument)
I think it doesn't exist because it requires to mark a portion of the
buffer, whereas emacs has capabilities to be smarter than that (via
hideshow or outline and some others yet), and emacs doesn't want to make
non-smart things too easy. At least that's my conclusion after some time
of using emacs and grumbling about the feature not being present :p
--
Nico.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-28 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-28 9:06 Arbitrary folding in emacs C K Kashyap
2014-03-28 9:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-28 9:25 ` C K Kashyap
2014-03-28 9:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-28 9:50 ` C K Kashyap
2014-03-28 11:45 ` Tim Visher
2014-03-28 12:26 ` Nicolas Richard [this message]
2014-03-28 22:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-03-30 10:19 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-03-28 14:17 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-03-28 14:28 ` Jai Dayal
2014-03-29 20:29 ` Jarek Czekalski
2014-03-29 6:42 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-03-31 15:15 ` Tim Visher
2014-03-28 20:00 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-03-28 19:58 ` Jai Dayal
2014-03-31 8:02 ` Andreas Röhler
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