Re: Announcing hideshow-org.el

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Mar 31, 2009, at 8:10 AM, Shane Celis wrote:

> Hello fellow org-mode users,
>
> Using org-mode has made some things for me intolerable.  I watched  
> Carsten Dominik's talk at google where he articulated his desire for  
> a simple interface for folding and unfolding.  I became very unhappy  
> with the hideshow.el interface for hiding and showing code.  I don't  
> know how anyone can bother to use these key bindings.
>
> ;;   hs-hide-block       C-c @ C-h     or C-c S-2 C-h   (C-c C-2 C-h  
> would be an improvement)
> ;;   hs-show-block       C-c @ C-s     or C-c S-2 C-h
>

Wow, these would have made good examples for my talk.  Disastrous keys,
invalidating the entire point of folding.

> I endeavored to make hideshow.el work more like org-mode and created  
> my extension hideshow-org.el.  Now TAB hides and shows code blocks  
> when no indentation is necessary, but indents otherwise.  So for  
> those of you who work a lot on code, I encourage you to give it a  
> try.  The code and a little screencast that shows it in action is  
> available here:
>
> http://gnufool.blogspot.com/2009/03/make-hideshow-behave-more-like-org-mode.html


This looks like a huge improvement.  Congratulations, maybe you should
talk to Thien-Thi and Dan, if they are interested to incorporate this
into hideshow as an option.

- Carsten

>
> Thanks again for org-mode.  It's fundamentally changed the way I  
> relate with emacs.
>
> -Shane
>
>
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