PED Editor Suggestion

To the e-lab team

This is just a suggestion on how to make long code more readable and easier to work with:

Quit a few years ago I worked with a HLL called OCCAM (similar to Pascal, developed by Inmos, UK) wich had a handy function in its editor. One was able to create a "fold" with code inside. This fold would have a heading or short description. For Pascal such a fold could typically contain an entire procedure and its name could be the heading. This way the line count is dramatically reduced. The folds are easy to create with just a hotkey and can be closed :3some: or opened at any time.

Would such a function be feasible?

PS: Your AVRCO system is just great.

Just my 5c

Richard T

Hi Harry,
das nennt sich Code Folding
Code Folding

und ist nicht trival.
Da wird schon seit Jahren dran gebastelt im SynEdit, worauf der PED setzt und perfekt ist das immer noch nicht. Abhilfe schafft man nur mit vielen kleinen Units :yawinkle:
Aber schön sieht es aus.

Gruß
miparo

@all,
this is not trivial. Delphi for example knows within a millisecond what the compiler
makes while you are writung. This is called the "incremental compile". We don't
have this. So the IDE is only updated after each compile run and then it knows
something about the relations of the source lines etc.
This is because we don't have a parser etc. in the editor. Sorry...

@Harry,
the begin..end is not recognized by the editor, see above.
Only the the highlighter makes words bold etc.

rolf