Patent 11188308 was granted and assigned to Apple (company) on November, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Techniques for interactive code editing are described. A system can provide for display a code editing environment that resembles a text editor. Upon detecting various user inputs, the system can display, in place of text, widgets in the code editing environment. The widgets can have the appearance of text, and have functions to interact with the user to provide various conveniences including, for example, line management, step completion, calculation completion, parameter management, and code folding.