On 8/7/2006, at 0:04, Michael Reece wrote:
some sections begin with =head1, some with =head2, some have both =head1 and =head2; but all end with =cut.
so there is no way to come up with folding patterns that will intelligently fold POD sections? can't have everything, i guess.
No -- for what you want you need to look at lines both above and below the current line to decide if the line is a folding marker. If TM did that, it would mean that editing a single line would in worst- case have to look at every other line in the document. That doesn’t scale.
I don’t know how much freedom you have with the POD markers, but you could introduce a convention, e.g. trailing space after =head2 makes it not a fold marker. That would then allow you to manually exclude the problematic folding markers.