Why folding?

Posted by Lucas
Jun 20, 2018 at 05:17 PM

Interesting topic. For the sake of clarification of the terms being discussed: My understanding has always been that, whereas “expand” and “collapse” are terms used generally in software that uses the outlining metaphor, “folding” is used more often in the context of plain text editors. Folding is thus an extra feature that makes editing plain text more outliner-like, whereas in dedicated outliners, it’s an integral feature that more often gets referred to as “expand” and “collapse”. Am I right? And if so, is the question here about folding specifically, or folding and expand-collapse more generally?