Re: emacs allout-mode

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

stucker wrote:
> Hi, 
> I am wondering if anyone might share with me the secrets of allout.el. I am
> interested in adapting this for my programming in R through ESS. I have read
> through comments in the source code and the docstring but there are some
> things that are still a bit confusing...
>
> So from examining allout.el my understanding is that I want to mark up my
> document in the following style (# is the comment char in R):
>
> ###_* heading 1
> ###_ = heading 2
> ...code...
> ###_ > another type of heading 2
> ...code...
>
> with stylish-prefixes set to true, the set of distinctive bullets
> "*+-=>()[{}&!?#%\"X@$~_\\:;^" can be used as different subtopic bullets.
>
> However:
> 1. This works when I do allout-hide-bodies, but when I add (setq
> allout-layout t) to the mode-hook and open an R file, some of the topics and
> subtopics are hidden.
> 2. In allout.el:
> "comment-start strings that do not end in spaces are tripled in
> the header-prefix, and an `_' underscore is tacked on the end, to
> distinguish them from regular comment strings.  comment-start
> strings that do end in spaces are not tripled, but an underscore
> is substituted for the space."
> -> Is there something I do that will automatically convert my comments into
> allout-style headings and sub-headings?
>
> The main advantage I see for allout over outline is the easy keyboard
> navigation (for my purposes, since I do not require encryption)... but is
> there more? Is there also an allout export document that can be generated?
> There is some comment in 'allout.el' which says:
> "Easy rendering of exposed portions into numbered, latex, indented, etc
> outline styles" leads me to believe so...
>
> I was wondering if anyone could possibly confirm this and perhaps share some
> ways in which they use allout mode (if at all, or do you use outline mode
> code)? I already use folding-mode already to hide parts of interactive
> scripts that I don't currently use, but don't want to delete... but was
> looking for another folding mode that will structure my scripts.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Stephen
>   

Hi,

AFAIU if you have already a structured text, whose
hierarchies you may adress, simply outline-mode or
hs-minor-mode should be the suitable tools.

Feel free to post some example code, should you not
come to a result.


Andreas

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