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I love this, but I'm a bit surprised that you do not include the ability to "unexpound" an "expounded" term. Is that intentional?

If I were reading a technical text, I would definitely end up reading most paragraphs at least twice. It would make no sense to keep the expounded terms in the second time; I'd be tempted to hide them back as soon as I was finished with them the first time.

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Yes, it is intentional. The functionality actually exists, it's just not mentioned:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/expounder/blob/master/examp...

It's because, once clicked, the new text should become part of the old, and that's it. Presumably you've already read it, and I don't want to make the viewer have to re-collapse the links every time.

Your use case makes sense, though, which is why the feature was included. Maybe I should mention it in the README.

I think collapsing would also be useful when all you need is a quick reminder, not a full explanation. Like "What's that again? [click to expand] Oh that's right [click to collapse]". That's easier than finding the place to skip to.

Hmm, true, I've added it to the README!

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