Re: [vile] Is there any sort of outliner that works well with vile?

[J. Chris Coppick]

Not sure if this will "help" or not, but perhaps you could modify the Help.pm contrib module to create some code that would allow you to jump around the file.  At the very least it might give you some ideas.

http://invisible-island.net/vile/perl/Help.html

    J. Chris

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Chris Green <address@hidden> wrote:

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 10:12:03PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> On 12 July 2016 at 16:58, Chris Green <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 08:54:00PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >> none that comes to mind (sounds like folding)
> >>
> > Ah, yes, folding is another way to describe what I want.  That might
> > help me find something, thanks.
>
> Editors which implement folding tend to do so by toggling an
> "invisible" attribute on the folded regions--so the text is still
> there, it is just not displayed when folding is in effect.
>
> vile has support for attributed text, but AFAIK that does not extend
> to invisible regions.
>
> What should be able to do however is create a separate buffer which
> contains the table of contents of your main document and provides
> hyperlinks for each entry back into the main document.
>
Thanks for the ideas.  I really want a single file because it's an
encrypted file and the whole superstructure of decrypting and
encrypting can't really manage multiple files/buffers.

--
Chris Green

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