Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> >There is much more in what is traditionally called outliner
> 
> Could you some examples of the features?

sorting branches on one level, binsorting of multiple branches by
qualitative measures, randomization of branches on one level,
flattening and deflattening of the subtrees (up to specified
level), fast (I mean FAST) movement in the tree, presenting only
given depth of the tree, inserting/deleting anylevel of the tree
in the subtree, gathering branches while browsing through the
tree and dropping in the new subtree, qualitative prioritizing
(order 500 items according to your preferred taste), all this
working on unlimited-depth tree (while working in brainstorming
mode you really do not want to be limited just to five levels or
so).

> >programs than just folding. Outliners are unfortunately pretty
> >rare these days, but there were some excellent ones on M$-DOS --
> >MaxThink was my favorite (see http://www.maxthink.net for the
> 
> Aurora! My favorite, I used it long time with DOSEMU even after switching
> to Linux. Or were you talking about word processors (Aurora was a text
> editor). Something like this I really miss in Linux... FTE is closest but
> it's missing many other important features. Someday I'll learn Emacs and
> see what comes out of it.

Something which I would like to call outline editor -- it is not
text editor, it is not wordprocessor, it is oriented on raw
process of support thinking. I suppose that it is so different
from regular editing of the document in LyX, that you would need
some radically different view of the document (View/Outline in
M$-Word comes to mind, but it should be heavily enhanced).

Matej

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