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+# What is Origami?
+
+A text folding minor mode for Emacs.
+
+With this minor mode enabled, you can collapse and expand regions of
+text.
+
+The actual buffer contents are never changed in any way. This works by
+using overlays to affect how the buffer is presented. This also means
+that all of your usual editing commands should work with folded
+regions. For example killing and yanking folded text works as you
+would expect.
+
+There are many commands provided to make expanding and collapsing text
+convenient.
+
+# What does it look like?
+
+![origami](http://www.gregsexton.org/images/origami-screen.png)
+
+# How do I install it?
+
+Firstly, origami requires the following dependencies:
+
+* https://github.com/magnars/dash.el
+* https://github.com/magnars/s.el
+
+You should install these anyway, they make working with elisp much
+more comfortable.
+
+Drop this package somewhere on your load-path or
+
+    (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "/path/to/origami.el/"))
+
+Then
+
+    (require 'origami)
+
+In a buffer run `M-x origami-mode`, and start experimenting with any
+of the supplied origami interactive functions. I recommend binding
+these to keys of your choice in the `origami-mode-map`.
+
+This has been tested on Emacs 24.3 and 24.4.
+
+# What can it do?
+
+Origami works by parsing the buffer to determine a fold structure.
+(Currently there is only support for determining the fold structure
+using a parser.)
+
+The following commands are supplied to manipulate folds in the buffer:
+
+* origami-open-node -- Open a fold node.
+
+* origami-open-node-recursively -- Open a fold node and all of its
+  children.
+
+* origami-show-node -- Like origami-open-node but also opens parent
+  fold nodes recursively so as to ensure the position where point is
+  is visible.
+
+* origami-close-node -- Close a fold node.
+
+* origami-close-node-recursively -- Close a fold node and all of its
+  children.
+
+* origami-toggle-node -- Toggle open or closed a fold node.
+
+* origami-forward-toggle-node -- Search forward on this line for a
+  node and toggle it open or closed. This makes toggling nodes much
+  more convenient.
+
+* origami-recursively-toggle-node -- Acts like org-mode header
+  collapsing. Cycle a fold between open, recursively open, closed.
+
+* origami-open-all-nodes -- Open every fold in the buffer.
+
+* origami-close-all-nodes -- Close every fold in the buffer.
+
+* origami-show-only-node -- Close everything but the folds necessary
+  to see the point. Very useful for concentrating on an area of code.
+
+* origami-previous-fold -- Move to the previous fold.
+
+* origami-next-fold -- Move to the next fold.
+
+* origami-undo -- Undo the last folding operation.
+
+* origami-redo -- Redo the last undone folding operation.
+
+* origami-reset -- Remove all folds from the buffer and reset all
+  origami state. Useful if origami messes up!
+
+# Does it support my favourite major-mode?
+
+Probably not. Currently out of the box support is provided for:
+
+* C
+* C++
+* Clojure
+* Java
+* Perl
+* elisp
+
+It should be trivial to add support for any language that uses braces
+to delimit blocks. Just add to `origami-parser-alist` something like:
+`(mode-name . origami-c-style-parser)`. Adding support for another
+lisp dialect should be almost as simple.
+
+I'm happy to work on parsers for other languages if enough interest is
+expressed.
+
+It should be fairly easy to write a parser. An origami parser is a
+function that takes a 'create function' and returns a function taking
+the string to be parsed. The returned function should return a list of
+fold nodes. Fold nodes are created using the passed-in create
+function. Best to use an example:
+
+     (defun my-amazing-parser (create)
+       (lambda (content)
+         (list (funcall create beginning-of-the-fold-node-point-position
+                               end-of-the-fold-node-point-position
+                               offset  ; this allows you to show some of the start of the folded text
+                               child-nodes))))
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