IndentView tool

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Carlo Hogeveen

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Aug 25, 2021, 7:52:44 AM8/25/21

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IndentView is a tool that can be used to navigate or gain insight into large recursive lists or program source code.

It accomplishes this by compressing the current text to a list of lines with a maximum indentation, which you can control with the Right and Left keys.

For example, it compresses a shopping / todo / whatever list of increasingly indented topics and subtopics into a new list of only the (sub)topic lines, where you control which level of subtopics you want to see.

As another example, programs typically use indentation to clarify their structure.

Top-down this tool works somewhat like TSE's "Function List" menu, but with the added capability that it can then include lines with ever increasing indentation, which gives some insight into the program's structure.

Bottom-up this tool shows lines with the current line's indentation or less, which gives insight into what the current line's place in the program structure is.