On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Steve Litt wrote: > > If you write long documents, use Linux, and need an outline processor, you > > might like the new VimOutliner 0.2.0. It uses VI keystrokes plus some > > enhanced commands to perform outliner functions such as indent, exdent, > > collapse, expand -- either by individual trees or outline wide. > > > > Since I'm an emacs-lover... you don't happen to know of an outliner for > emacs that's good with LyX :-) (Don't think I could handle the vi > keymapping...)
Emacs has an outline mode (ESC x outline-mode RETURN). It sounds like you know that. I've never tried to use it with Lyx. Once in Lyx format, you lose the body/tree/subtree emacs markings (*, **, ***). When I have a complex structure that I havn't figured out completely, I'm inclined to use emacs until I get the issue sorted out (or partially sorted out). I'll usually do a lot of notes and partial developments of ideas (this is Sociology or humanities ideas, not quantitative papers which tend to be more straight ahead). Then, I'll copy/paste into lyx and sort the rest out with lyx. On occassions, I'll sometimes leave an emacs window open beside lyx and hop back and forth modifying the outline and doing the serious drafting in lyx. One size does not fit all (persons or problems). -- Mark Hansel PO Box 41 Minnesota State University Moorhead Moorhead, MN 56563 ph: 218-236-2039 fax: 218-236-2593 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwwcj.mnstate.edu
