Brett,
With the risk of having completely misunderstood what you are asking for...
I believe JEdit has the capacity to collapse portions of code, so that if you have, say
collapse: func [a b /local c] [
print "this method does nothing."
loop 20 [
print "I do nothing!"
]
comment {
This could have been longer,
but this should do.
}
]
You could double-click the word collapse, and the only thing you would see was
collapse: func [a b /local c] [ ... ]
I don't use JEdit myself, so I'm not 100% sure how this works, but I believe JEdit is
free, so you could always check it out for yourself. This is a feature I've wanted in
TextPad for a long time, though.
~H
Dixit Brett Handley (13.00 09.01.2002):
>While reading the style threads I visualised a rather strange method of
>communicating the meaning of a Rebol program.
>
>So the idea is this, imagine a function you have written - it should be
>non-trivial perhaps with at least a loop and a condition
>maybe a few, what the heck, make it at least 20 lines long.
>
>Now imagine you are looking at the source using an enhanced viewer. What if
>you could name (or comment) a given code block (I know we can but just bear
>with me). Now the trick is that if you magic-click the code-block it
>collapses into it's associated name (or short description). So visually your
>function is now far simpler yet still only one function.
>
>This is essentially what I do in my mind when trying to understand other
>people's code (more accurately I tend to mentally group sections of code). I
>thought though a block was a convienient unit of grouping for a Rebol tool.
>
>Someone might say "it should be a function anyhow". I'd respond that it
>could and perhaps this enhanced viewer might suggest such a refactoring. So
>it has an active use as well as a documentry / learning use.
>
>So I guess I'm saying that code in an enhanced viewr could have an comment
>or name attribute attached that can be visually
>very helpful. We have GUIs why do we keep commenting our code in syntax?! We
>should comment the code values themselves!
>
>Can someone write me one please? I'd like it yesterday thanks! :)
>
>Brett.
>
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