Re:FoldingText – Plain text productivity for Mac users
by jessegrosjean on Friday December 15, 2017 @10:04AM
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I'm think Engelbart's "Mother of all demos" included folding headings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
I think the first "popular" ones were made by Dave Winer (http://davewiner.com). Here's a list of some (http://outliners.scripting.com)
Re:FoldingText – Plain text productivity for Mac users
by pm215 on Friday December 15, 2017 @04:17AM
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer says that the Inmos D700 Transputer Development System had a folding editor. That would have been in the early 1980s I think?
Re:FoldingText – Plain text productivity for Mac users
by delhanty on Friday December 15, 2017 @01:16AM
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Then I remember David Lavender joining Parasolid in 1992 - not liking Teddy that much - a little bit of elisp later he had folds working in Emacs. *
So folds in Emacs date from at least 1992.
* It could occasionally create corrupt folded files though, which was annoying if he checked them in to the SCM.
Re:FoldingText – Plain text productivity for Mac users
by qualitytime on Friday December 15, 2017 @03:54AM
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Yes, 1992, by a classmate friend of mine Jamie Lokier!
Re:FoldingText – Plain text productivity for Mac users
by cschmidt on Friday December 15, 2017 @10:32AM
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Dave Winer's http://outliners.scripting.com/ site has some interesting history. You can download the old programs there.
I remember using MORE on the Mac in the late '80s.
Re:FoldingText – Plain text productivity for Mac users
by simmons on Friday December 15, 2017 @09:22AM
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I haven't used org-mode, so I may be a bit unclear on exactly what is meant by folding editors. However, if we're talking about collapsing sections of text, I wonder if the oN-Line System (NLS) would qualify, as shown in Douglas Engelbart's 1968 "The Mother of All Demos" [1].
Re:FoldingText – Plain text productivity for Mac users
by Someone on Friday December 15, 2017 @11:29AM
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Wikipedia claims IBM’s SPF in 1974 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_folding#History), using indentation to identify blocks (one may call that cheating, as folding would break down if the code wasn’t indented consistently, but for 1974, I wouldn’t hold it against them)
I'd be interested to know where folding editors first originated?
We have org-mode now of course.
My first encounter was 28 years ago now - December 1989 - an in-house editor called Teddy written by "Burkhard" that we had running on Vax - for Parasolid development in Cambridge, UK - think it dated from 1987 or earlier.