[TxMt] folding perl pod?

[Allan Odgaard]

On 9/7/2006, at 20:02, Gerd Knops wrote:

> [...] I would love to see a more powerful folding implementation,  
> even if it means folding is only calculated during open/save of files.

I am all for more powerful foldings, but it seems your suggestion  
implies that folding logic was moved to a plug-in and only applied  
during load/save.

The big disadvantage of this is that most users can’t write plug-ins  
and moving to a code-based system (instead of the currently  
declarative approach) also makes supporting mixed document types  
infeasible.

Personally I am interested in semantic foldings [1] which speaks for  
integrating them with the language parser, where again moving them to  
plug-ins would be counterproductive for that.

[1] Realistically I will probably need 2-3 “modes” in which one of  
them was the semantic mode, as semantic foldings can’t handle all the  
user desires I am aware of.


>> 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.
> There are tens if not hundreds of thousands of perl files  
> containing POD documentation, so this is impractical.

Ah, sorry. I thought the OP was writing his own code, not just  
browsing through the hundreds of thousands of third party code out  
there :p