>Likely when Igor Zhuralov wrote the ~Syntax_Coloring for the Kate text editor
>code folding was not yet available. Well now it is and i made some additions
>to make it possible to use Kate and fold J code (as well as do
>~Syntax_Coloring).
>The wiki page seems to be immutable so as of yet i have not been able to add
>it there, but i should be able to explicate the additions to the xml file.
1) within the context for the attribute sentence one can add the four lines:
<StringDetect attribute="Foldable" context="Fold_able" String=" : 0"
beginRegion="Fold"/>
<StringDetect attribute="Foldable" context="Fold_able" String="NB.("
beginRegion="Fold"/>
<StringDetect attribute="Foldable" context="Fold_able" String="NB.)"
endRegion="Fold"/>
<RegExpr attribute="Foldable" context="Fold_able" String="^\)$"
endRegion="Fold"/>
They begin a region either with an explicit script header or a "NB.(".
Similarly they end it with a singleton ) or a "NB.)"
2) Next one creates a new "foldable" context:
<context name="Fold_able" attribute="Foldable" lineEndContext="#pop" >
<DetectIdentifier /> <DetectSpaces />
</context>
3) And adds this line to the "itemDatas" section"
<itemData name="Foldable" defStyleNum="dsRegionMarker" spellChecking="false"/>
4) To get foldability on indented lines one adds this to the "general" section:
<folding indentationsensitive="true" />
i do believe that foldability should add greatly to the terseness
advantage that J already has. Making it much easier to read and work
to large files.
Possibly Bill is the appropriate person to add this revised file to the wiki?
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greg
~krsnadas.org
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