Re: Fwd: Cocoa IDE v1 project

On Feb 16, 2009, at 6:27 AM, Alexander Repenning wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Gail Zacharias wrote:
>> In what ways is Fred better than our current editor?
>
> full font support allowing useful things such as syntax colorization.

In more general terms, Fred provides good support for adding custom  
features that improves it as a LISP developer editor.

It could go further though. I've missed some capabilities in the  
underlying datamodel. From work a few years back (so take my  
recollection with a grain of salt) I found that it wasn't trivial to  
make Fred hide content in a document (without deleting the text). I  
was considering making a Fred extension to collapse e.g. a function/ 
class definition (or other LISP form) and leave just a short  
clickable label/graphic in place. I missed being able to insert non- 
character entities in the Fred document data sequence, which would  
have facilitated many interesting developer enhancements including  
the collapse feature mentioned above.

  -- Terje

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