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.
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