There is an excellent outline specific application, that would likely
do what you want in a much easier and simpler way than using a
programmer's text editor:
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/

- Steve


On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Walter Overby <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Sorry for the newbie post.
>
> I would like to use BBEdit for simple text-based outlines.  Each
> outline level is distinguished by indentation, in the spirit of
> Python.
>
> My goal is to use code folding to collapse and expand levels of this
> very simple format.
>
> So far, I've had very good luck using the Python language module.  The
> drawback is that the language module detects certain text as Python,
> when of course it isn't.  It colors keywords and text strings in ways
> that don't make sense for my almost-plain text input.
>
> BBEdit seems quite capable of doing what I need, and my instinct tells
> me that a Language Module based on the Python Language Module would do
> the trick.  Does such a thing exist already?  Or is there an example I
> could readily adapt?
>
> Note that I do not want to change my delimiters from indentation to
> something else.
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Walter Overby.
>
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