From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2005-06-24T07:40:38+09:00
Subject: Re: traits-0.4.0 - the coffee release

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On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
>>
>>> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>>>
>>>>> IMHO, those folding markers in the source code are uggly :(
>>>
>>>> i do agree that they're ugly but the usefulness in vim is simply too
>>>> great to stop me from using them...
>>>
>>> Why do you dedent them to column 1?  Anyway, you can use
>>> foldmethod=3Dsyntax with the vim-ruby.rubyforge.org versions (if not th=
e
>>> one in 6.3 (7.0 has been updated I believe)) to do what you=E2=80=99re =
doing,
>>> which is more or less folding the body of methods,
>>
>> i can't deal with the syntax level highlighting... it's too comprehensiv=
e.
>> what i generally do is start out with no folds
>>
>>   class C
>>     def initialize
>>     end
>>   end
>>
>> as it grows i'll start added folds into methods.  when i move up to
>
> You know that there are quite a number of options to fine-tune these
> kinds of things for syntax-directed folding, right?  For example, look
> at 'foldnestmax', which is (again) precisely what you want.
>
>>   module M
>>     class C
>>     end
>>     class B
>>     end
>>   end
>>
>> i start folding classes, etc.  also, the marker method works perfectly f=
or
>> perl too...
>
> OK, two things:
>
> 1.  Why Perl as an example?
>
> 2.  Yes, but we=E2=80=99re not discussing Perl.
>
> Finally, I use foldmethod=3Dmarker by default, but I don=E2=80=99t use th=
em quite
> like you do.  I like markers for exact folding.  Computers have a hard
> time getting these things right, but as far as I can tell, they can do
> precisely what you want correctly,
>        nikolai

i concede sir!  ;-)  seriously, i'll read the :help folding section and
rethink.

kind regards.

-a
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