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In search of a non-electron text editor that can fold | Are emacs and (neo)vim my only options? (discuss.online)
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[โ€“] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

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.

[โ€“] ruud@piefed.world 1 points 14 hours ago

This is a very cool list, I will try some. The feature I am looking for is not included in the overview so I'll have to just try. Unless someone can suggest which app has this feature: I want to be able to click/double click a quote to select the text between the quotes. This to easily replace text between quotes. On MacOS I used to use BBEdit which has this feature. But now I'm on linux so looking for a replacement. (I do know the ci' vi-command but am looking for a GUI editor). I use Fedora KDE Plasma

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