origami.el/README.md

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?

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))))