On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Liviu Andronic <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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.
>

True - I must have forgotten about lyx-outline... shame on me.

Let's hope that there will be a usable version soon, because it sounds very
interesting and promising.

Cheers,

Rainer


> Cheers
> Liviu
>
> [1] http://www.oak-tree.us/lyx-outline/
>



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