Hello On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Rainer M Krug <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > Apart from LyX, am using quite extensively emacs with org-mode for literate > programming and keeping track of documentation in my programs. One feature > which I love about org-mode is folding: I can fold all sections I am not > working on at the moment, and can unfold all headings apart from the body > text for navigation purposes. > What I am wondering: why haven't I seen this feature in text editors? > Folding would make the writing of long documents much easier and also the > navigation much more flexible. Effectively, the Outline view solves the > navigation issues, but e.g. writing in one section refering to results in an > earlier section requires opening a second window - which I personally > dislike (in these cases I usually have the pdf open for reference). > So my question: would that be a feature for the wish list of LyX? For me, it > wold be brilliant. > If others think the same, I will add it to the bug tracker as a feature > request - but are there any comments? > I believe that Rob had plans for such a feature as part of his LyX Outline project [1]. I remember that such ideas (for code-folding) were being floated some time ago, but I'm not sure if he got to the point of implementing them.
Cheers Liviu [1] http://www.oak-tree.us/lyx-outline/
