Zoot Grows on You

Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Sep 6, 2007 at 12:12 AM

I missed this post. In an outliner, discontiguous topic selection is more important than discontiguous text selection, agreed. What I was saying is that BrainStorm provides for discontiguous topic selection, thereby obviating the limitation of the plaint text medium BrainStorm uses. From what you say, though, OS X is ahead of Windows XP on inherently including discontiguous text selection. Of course, XP is no longer the standard, and I haven’t tried Vista.

David Dunham wrote:
>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.