[TxMt] Re: Folding in plain text?

[Justin Catterall]

On 13 Jul 2010, at 17:24, Dru Kepple wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Catterall
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:03 AM
> Subject: [TxMt] Folding in plain text?
>
> I'd like to be able to fold text in plain text files. I often use a  
> plain text file to plan database tables and columns, and to write  
> pseudo code. Ideally I'd like to be able to fold the text so that I  
> can more easily see my headings - like an outliner, yes, that's it.
>
>
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>
> Well, you can always select some arbitrary text and press F1.  The  
> nice thing about that is once you've done that, the folding markers  
> tend to stick around and you can re-fold the same bit of text  
> without the selection.
>
> Beyond that, you'll have to define a language grammar so that  
> folding start and stop markers can be declared.


Thank you Dru, I wasn't aware of that, I've only ever used F1 within a  
code block and have it fold that block. I didn't know you could set  
arbitrary fold locations with a selection. Thanks for mentioning it.

Defining language grammar would probably be a very educational  
exercise, maybe I'll look at the existing bundles and have a go some  
time, but this solution solves the problem for now.

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