Text editor with collapsible braces??

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Re: Text editor with collapsible braces?? by clemburg (Curate) on Oct 13, 2000 at 22:50 UTC
Emacs will indent your code according to your preferences. This will definitively help with some of these problems. Christian Lemburg Brainbench MVP for Perl http://www.brainbench.com	[reply]
RE: Text editor with collapsible braces?? by princepawn (Parson) on Oct 13, 2000 at 23:28 UTC
I was going to include the code, but it is 60K long. You can pick up folding.el here It will take your source code and replace each bracketed section with a marker. You use the navigation commands on the folding mode to move in and out of "folds". It worked for me on my C code fine. I haven't used it with Perl, but given that the same character is used for delimited code blocks, there is a good chance. It is not a standard part of GNU Emacs (even though my Landmark Learning Neural Network is --- just type meta-x lm-test-run on any GNU Emacs!). If you still get no help, take a look through the archives of gnu.emacs.sources or post to gnu.emacs.help or look through The Emacs Lisp Archive	[reply]
Re: Text editor with collapsible braces?? by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Oct 13, 2000 at 22:45 UTC
I'm sure most any decent IDE under NT will give you some good features for finding matching parens and braces. Unfortunately the only knowledge I have is of the Unix world. Stock `vi` will jump to the matching paren/brace/bracket if you hit the percent (`%`) key. Also, `vim` ("improved") has some color features that highlight unmatched parens/braces/brackets.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
RE: Re: Text editor with collapsible braces?? by arturo (Vicar) on Oct 13, 2000 at 23:02 UTC
The so-far-vapour (well, not really -- there are betas and maybe even NT ports at everybody's favorite site, vim.org) vim version 6 is supposed to bring code 'folding' which would do exactly what the poster was looking for. Philosophy can be made out of anything -- or less	[reply]
Re: Text editor with collapsible braces?? by nop (Hermit) on Oct 14, 2000 at 16:17 UTC
Following up on clemburg's point, NT Emacs works great for perl, once you have a decent dot-emacs file (I like Steve Ackermann's win32 perl customised Emacs). It understands matching braces / brackets / parens, and helps find mismatches. nop	[reply]
Re: Text editor with collapsible braces?? by $code or die (Deacon) on Oct 15, 2000 at 18:15 UTC
I don't know of a Win editor that collapses braces, but UltraEdit 32 highlights the everything between matching braces when you press ctrl-B. Its not perfect, but it's a nice little editor.	[reply]