Grouped Outdenting

[Adam Wildavsky]

On 5/6/07, Greg Titus <greg at omnigroup.com> wrote:
>
>
> On May 6, 2007, at 9:05 AM, Adam Wildavsky wrote:
>
> > More has been gone for over 10 years and I still miss it. I'd love to
> > see the premier outliner on the Mac take up its standard and
> > include some of its major features, preferably with the same
> > command keys. For those too young to remember that's Command-[ to
> > promote and Command-] to demote.
>
> OmniOutliner does have exactly those command keys for indent and
> outdent, and they work exactly the same as promote and demote in
> More. (I.e. the menu items are named differently, but the command
> keys and behavior matches More exactly.)


Would that it were so. I just fired up a PPC Mac that still has Classic
installed and downloaded More to confirm my recollection. The final version,
from 1991 (!), still works nicely. It's available here thanks to Symantec
and Dave Winer:

  http://www.outliners.com/more31

To be specific, here's what happens when I press Command-] in More and in
OmniOutliner. In each case my cursor is on line 'c'.

Before:

  a
  b
  c
  d
  e
  f

After, in OmniOutliner:

  a
  b
      c
  d
  e
  f

After, in More:

  a
  b
  c
      d
      e
      f

I can sometimes achieve the same effect by choosing Outdent followed by Move
Right. Alas this does not work at the top level of the outline.

-- 
Adam Wildavsky  <adam at tameware.com>  www.tameware.com