bell@fmeed1.UUCP (John Bell) (08/27/90)
I am looking for a *NIX program which will edit outlines (you know, those things we had to do in grammar school ;-}). Along with the usual insert/delete/move text (on a per-branch basis), I want to (at the minimum) be able to expand or hide a sub-tree, delete a whole sub-tree, or move it to be re-rooted in another place, etc. On the Macintosh, there are the desk accessory "Acta" (which I think is pretty good) and the regular program "Thinktank"; for MS-DOS there are a whole slew of both TSRs and programs (including "Thinktank" again, I believe). Some *NIX word processors (e.g., Wordperfect) have an "outline mode", but this is not powerful enough for me. Of course, it must be curses-based, with a well-known (preferably ASCII) file format. Does anyone know of such a beast? I've checked in all the source archives I have ready access to, with no luck. I'd prefer source (for HP-UX or generic SysV), otherwise shareware compiled for HP-UX, otherwise pointers to commercial products. If I can't find something good && cheap enough, I _may_ be _forced_ to write it (and if so, I'll post it). Email your contest entries today! (I'll summarize to the net.) adTHANXvance. -- John D. Bell, c/o Ford Motor Co. Electronics Division - (313)845-3040 ...!mailrus!sharkey!fmeed1!bell bell%fmeed1.uucp@mailgw.cc.umich.edu "You may be right, I may be crazy, But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for." - Billy Joel