On Friday 09 April 2010 07:37:18 rgheck wrote: > On 04/09/2010 03:49 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > On 04/09/2010 07:31 AM, Jose Quesada wrote: > >> What I would like to know is... is this narrowing feature interesting > >> for > >> people here? > > > > Yes. > > > >> Or is it just me who thinks that it would improve workflow and > >> reduce mental load? > > > > Not just you. The good thing with LyX is that you can navigate easily > > from paragraph to paragraph with the keyboard. But in order to make > > that feature really useful without being forced to use the mouse, you > > would also need shortcuts for navigating between sections. > > > >> In case it's interesting, I'll file an enhancement > >> request. Doesn't sound terribly difficult to implement, but I may be > >> wrong... > > > > Should not be terribly hard indeed. All the code for scrolling > > settings is in BufferView class if you want to experiment. > > The other thing I've considered, along these lines, is the ability to > collapse sections, a la the ability to collapse for loops, functions, > etc, in any decent programming editor. That would in some ways serve a > very similar purpose, especially if you could just hit "Collapse All" > and then use the outliner to uncollapse what you actually wanted to > edit. Little triangles at the side, like in QtCreator, would work too. > > rh
Vim does this with its "Folding" feature. Because it uses the Vim engine, VimOutliner also does collapse/expand. VimOutliner also does hoisting, although in my opinion VimOutliner hoisting isn't ready for prime time and can lose data. SteveT
