Pasting lists..

[Greg Titus]

On Wednesday, January 2, 2002, at 11:15  AM, Pat Castaldo wrote:
>
> I have a simple list of things to do that i have in a plain text 
> file... the items are separated by line breaks.
>
> I want to paste or import them into outliner so that each line is a new 
> to-do item.
>
> Any tips/hints? Or is this a feature request?
>
> If I cut and paste the whole thing into outliner, it treats it just as 
> one big to-do. Which makes sense, but is not what I want. Maybe there 
> could be a modified paste option-control-V (or something) that, while 
> pasting, converts the line breaks into new items? Or is this an 
> import-type feature.

Hi Pat,

If you are currently editing an item, pasting into outliner will add the 
whole text to the current item (as you discovered). But if you just have 
an item selected and aren't editing the text, then pasting will add new 
items for each line in the paste (as you want). Outliner will even get 
the indentation structure right if you use tabs for different levels in 
the plain text file.

To get out of editing a particular item and just select it, either click 
to the left of the bullet (in the gutter), or hit ESC to end editing. Or 
you could use command-shift-A to deselect-all. Either way, once you have 
no selection, or you are selecting the whole item instead of editing, 
just paste.

Hope this helps,
	--Greg