Code Browser

Links

About Text Folding

• Description of Folding - An introduction to folding by Andy Key, the author of the Andys Editor.
• What is a folding editor? - Another introduction to folding editors by Michael Haardt, the author of fe.

Other Free Folding Editors

Folding editors are more and more populars and all recent editors include folding capabilities. Here is a list of free editors supporting explicit folding (i.e. not based on syntax or indentation).

• SciTE supports both implicit and explicit folding (at least for C/C++ using //{ and //}).
• jEdit is a text editor for programmers that support folding based on indentation or explicit folding.
• Leo, not a folding editor but an outlining editor for programmers. It is also a literate programming tool.
• Vim. Vim 6 introduces folding. It has six methods to select folds, including one to select them by markers.

Contributions

• Squi is a very rudimentary tool written in Ruby to convert Code Browser files to HTML.

Zinc

• Short introduction to zinc
• Reference manual

Related Topics

Literate Programming

• literateprogramming.com
  

Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

• Evaluating Space-Filling Thumbnails [QuickTime] (24MB). A nice video comparing different navigation methods through a document. The PDF article is here.
• Evaluating the Efficiency of Code Elision in Program Navigation [PDF]. This paper presents other techniques of text ellision to help the navigation in a document.