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From: bell@fmeed1.UUCP (John Bell)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.wanted,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Looking For *NIX Outline Editor
Summary: like Macintosh "Acta", but for my 9000/375 and VT100
Keywords: curses editor hp-ux outline structured-text unix
Message-ID: <7625@fmeed1.UUCP>
Date: 20 Aug 90 22:58:41 GMT
Reply-To: bell%fmeed1.uucp@mailgw.cc.umich.edu
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Organization: c/o Ford Motor Co. Electronics Division
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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
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