[Doc-SIG] Documentation systems for other languages

[Bill Janssen]

> For a pythonic system, folding would mean taking any fairly large chunk
> of code or doc (sharing a common base indent) and providing for it to be
> *displayed* (by the IDE) either (open fold) as the whole chunk or
> (closed fold) as a single line carrying (typically encoded as a comment)
> some text that says what's in the fold.  In between, of course, we have
> the fold open but some portions of its contents folded out of sight.
> Most modern directory-browsers display directory tree hierarchies in a
> way instantly recognisable to anyone who ever used a folded editor.

Sounds like outline mode in emacs.  The GNU Emacs support for SGML
provides this, perhaps more closely resembling what you describe.

Bill