Splitting and concatenating

[Tim Hurson]

Hi Greg, you wrote:

> 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).

I¹d be fine with a plain return doing this trick. As long as a plain return
at the end of the line still got me a new, blank bullet.

> 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.

Wow. This is a tough one. I love the idea of columns, but I¹ve never used
them in an outliner before (except in InfoDepot nee FairWitness, where they
never really worked that well anyway), so I have little practical
experience. Seems to me your gut is right, as long as the 2 on your example
remains in the second column of the item, with the first column having
become blank. Then, if I wanted to add the 2 to the 1 in the previous second
column, I could either cut/past, drag, or concatenate again, this time with
the cursor in the second column?? That¹s my first reaction.

Thanks very much, Greg, for getting on to this so quickly. It¹ll make a
world a difference to most of us who have been MORE addicts!

Tim



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