From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby@...>
Date: 2004-10-05T05:48:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: [SOLUTION] Secret Santas (#2)

Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Brian Schr�der wrote:
> 
>> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>>
>>> class EmailList < Array
>>> #{{{
>>>   [snip]
>>> #}}}
>>> end
>>
>>
>> hello Ara,
>>
>> Just out of interest, please do not understand this as an offence:
>> to which end are you using all those #{{{ comments? Is it to make your
>> editor understand indentation, or what is its purpose?
> 
> 
> vim is a folding editor.  everything inbetween the markers appear as one 
> line
> as something like
> 
>   +--  3 lines: >> --------------------------------------------
> 
> in otherwords each class in my solution looks, to me, as
> 
>   class Foo
>   +--  n lines: >> ------------
>   end
> 
> and each method likewise.  if you don't use folding i highly reccomend it -
> folds can be cut, pasted, operated on, etc.  and, of course, it makes 
> 10,000
> source file a breeze to navigate.
> 
> cheers.
> 
> -a
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Ahh,

thanks for the pointer. I found the same for xemacs. But I think I 
personally like hide-show better. Entering this additional comments seem 
like too much work to me.

Regards,

Brian

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