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You can do useful things with Code Browser, it has folding and links. Aka, it is the simplest possible form of a hypertext. As it is just text, things can easily be scripted.

https://tibleiz.net/code-browser/download.html

I have kept an older, personally preferred version of that Editor on my GitHub Repo, unfortunately it does not perform stable on Linux and I have not been able to compile it on that system, in order to fix the bugs.

https://github.com/nilslindemann/Code_Browser_49/blob/master...

Here is a video showing how it works (my older version + scripts):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU4ThIJ6eKc

I also use this editor for code, it gives me the expressiveness I need, but its comments make the code look terrible in other editors.

I wish these features were available in other text editors. For someone used to Code Browsers folding capabilities, other editors are just awkward. But I guess other Coders will think the same when they see that they don't even get completion in Code Browser. Also, it is quite a niche editor.



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