Feature request

[Greg Titus]

On Wednesday, January 2, 2002, at 02:57  PM, Tim Hurson wrote:

> One of the things I really loved about MORE was the ability to split a 
> bullet into two with command return, and ocversely to concatenate two 
> bullets with command delete. Any chance OmniOutliner will be adding 
> those functions soon?

I've just added the first half of this feature (splitting), and it 
occurs to me that it might be more natural to simply make return do this 
(instead of command-return).

(1) If you were editing plain text and hit return in the middle of a 
line, it'd split the rest of the line onto a new line - this is what 
people generally expect to happen with the return key. (2) Microsoft 
Word outlines work this way. (3) We already have command-return used to 
insert a newline in the current item.

Is anyone attached to the current behavior of return -- simply adding a 
new item despite where your selection is? Anyone have any arguments 
against a change?

On another note, what would you expect to happen if you did a 
command-delete to concatenate when you were working with a document with 
multiple columns? My first impulse is to concatenate the contents of the 
column that you are in with the same column in the previous row, but 
only delete the row if all other columns are empty, if not leaving the 
rest of the row as is. I.e.:

* xyz			1
* abc		2

turns into:

* xyzabc		1
*			2

Instead of eliminating the second bullet point. Any thoughts?

Thanks for the feedback,
	--Greg