Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: Outliners, Open Source, and common interfaces

Author:	Jason Gerry
Posted:	3/5/1999; 10:12:24 AM
Topic:	Frontier and PIM's
Msg #:	3650 (In response to 3630)
Prev/Next:	3649 / 3651

Personally, I've been writing a lot of Java code lately, and although I have found an acceptable text editor for Windows (UltraEdit), it can still be tedious. Sometimes, I really long for an outliner/text editor to write all kinds of code, which is basically just bits and pieces of methods/functions/subroutines, depending on your paradigm. It's all indented, neatly lined up, etc. An outliner is a perfect way to edit that type of text. I'd love to be able to just roll up a particular method and hide all the underlying code, just when I'm sick of looking at it or don't need to look at it. There is a text editor that kind of does this, called CodeWright, I believe, but it was super-clunky in every other way and I wasn't a big fan.

I'd be willing to adopt a full-on outliner to write code, or at least give it a try. Anyone have any suggestions on how to go about trying?

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