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In search of a non-electron text editor that can fold | Are emacs and (neo)vim my only options?
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The following gif demonstrates folding:
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If you only care about folding Markdown, as in your animation, I'm sure that there are Markdown-specific editors that do that.
If you want folding across a wide variety of languages, then I think that your choices are going to be more-limited, since those editors need to be able to parse those languages. Vim and Emacs are kinda the Big Two general-purpose editors, and they're gonna have the widest support.
EDIT: For specifically programming languages, a number of IDEs can probably do it.
Here's Eclipse, for example.
EDIT2:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors
This has a "text folding" and "code folding" column.
thanks! looking into JED now