From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sacha Chua Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: State of the art in Emacs outlining? Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 23:02:34 +0800 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87adly19th.fsf@sachac.linuxboxen.org> References: <002101c26773$9a581900$030ba8c0@petronius.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033484629 21855 127.0.0.1 (1 Oct 2002 15:03:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:03:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17wOYu-0005gJ-00 for ; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 17:03:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17wOZA-0007oL-00; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:04:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17wOYX-0007RE-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:03:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17wOYS-0007K4-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:03:24 -0400 Original-Received: from myvscan.d-one.net ([202.8.224.52]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.10) id 17wOYR-0007FM-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:03:19 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 7034 invoked by uid 506); 1 Oct 2002 14:33:20 -0000 Original-Received: from sacha@sachac.linuxboxen.org by myvscan.d-one.net with qmail-scanner-1.03 (iscan: v3.1/v6.150-1001/353/47911. . Clean. Processed in 0.225046 secs); 01 Oct 2002 14:33:20 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: sacha@sachac.linuxboxen.org via myvscan.d-one.net X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.03 (Clean. Processed in 0.225046 secs) Original-Received: from 233.125.d-one.net (HELO sachac.linuxboxen.org) (202.8.233.125) by myav.d-one.net with SMTP; 1 Oct 2002 14:33:19 -0000 Original-Received: from sacha by sachac.linuxboxen.org with local (masqmail 0.2.11) id 17wOXi-0yO-00; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 23:02:34 +0800 Original-To: "Tom Davey" In-Reply-To: <002101c26773$9a581900$030ba8c0@petronius.net> ("Tom Davey"'s message of "Sun, 29 Sep 2002 00:49:25 -0400") Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) X-Spam-Rating: myav.d-one.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:2138 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2138 "Tom Davey" writes: > Is there a preferred elisp package (or combination) in use today for > Emacs outlining? I am a little confused by the several packages out > there -- outline.el, of course, and allout.el and folding.el and others I like allout.el because it works well with other modes (although planner.el and allout.el fight about C-c C-n and other bindings). The Emacswiki:AllOut page has a note on how to add decent fontlocking. =) Another thing I like about allout.el is its automatically numbered lists. It's pretty cool. I also like the fact that allout's pretty flexible about outline prefixes and the bullets you use. Sometimes the regexes need a little tweaking, though - I'd been having problems with allout.el and HTML. Fixed it with a kludge, will get around to filing a bug report sooner or later. folding.el is probably also really cool, but allout.el's taken care of all of my needs so far, so I don't really have a compelling reason to try folding.el out ('cept for the fact that it's there). One of these days. Maybe you can try out folding.el, allout.el and other outline major/minor modes you encounter, then write about which one you like most. -- Sacha Chua - 4 BS CS Ateneo geekette interests: emacs, gnu/linux, wearables, teaching compsci