Zoot Grows on You

Posted by David Dunham
Aug 26, 2007 at 05:25 PM

Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>BrainStorm overcomes the main _limitation_ in manipulating plain text: the
>potential for multiple discontiguous text selection seems to be a property of rtf and
>not plain text. MS Word has it; no plain text editor that I’m aware of does. (Maybe
>someone knows of an exception/)

I know you’re talking about Windows, but on Mac OS X, TextEdit (the moral equivalent of Notepad/Wordpad) does discontiguous selection just fine.

I’ve never used it. What I do use is multiple topic selection (like in Opal)—select a bunch of topics and change them all to bold (or whatever). Opal supports discontiguous selection within a topic, but I’ll bet almost all Mac outliners do.