On Friday, March 05, 2021 06:06:13 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:33:56 GMT [email protected] wrote:
> > If you have some magic way of getting all people to use words (in
> > particular, "folding" in the same way, please do so, and let me know.
Fixing typo / grammo: -------=--------------------)^
> Widespread use of a good dictionary would be a good start. (What proportion
> of households would you guess have no books at all?) Then again, teaching
> of English language in schools should be resumed.
From an older email in this thread
> > Other people / contexts seem to mean the ability of some software
(typically
> > some text editors / word processors) to hide portions of the text, leaving
> > (typically) only one leading line and some kind of marker (typically in
the
> > left margin) that can be clicked to reveal the text that was hidden.
> > (Leaving a different marker than can be used to re-hide the text.)
> That's neither breaking nor folding: just showing that the line is longer
> than what you're seeing.
Not really to argue, but just one example from a google search for [define:
folding text]. Google searches for simply [define: folding[ mostly found
references to non-computer oriented folding, or protein folding -- didn't look
hard to find an exception.
from https://www.vimfromscratch.com/articles/vim-folding/
<quote>
Vim Folding
By Yanis
March 15, 2020
Folding is a way to hide a chunk of text, and thus unclutter the view. That
comes handy when you need to focus on some other part of code, or if you want
to get a quick overview of the whole file.
</quote>
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