Subject: Re: Commit: Various Lists UI improvements.
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Fri Feb 02 2001 - 11:57:07 CST
At 12:34 AM +1100 2/2/01, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > 1. Collapsing an outline starts with making text or headings below a
> > given level invisible. Expanding it makes them visible again.
Abi doesn't (currently) support collapsing, right??
>The
>> ability to copy a heading with it's associated text and subheadings or
>> without it requires that the document recognize (or be able to
>> recognize) which text and sub-headings should be associated with a
>> higher level heading.
>
>You don't need to do this to copy an Abi list structure. Just select the
>region/copy or cut it and paste it elsewhere. You can even paste into an
>pre-existing list structure with a reasonable chance of getting what you
>want.
You misunderstand, Martin. In a real outliner (hierarchical
list editor), one should be able to select JUST the headline and
choose "Copy" to get the ENTIRE subtree of that heading into the
clipboard/scrap. Abi, as far as I know, doesn't do that either.
LDR
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