Frontier 5: Outlines

General

Every line of an outline can be no longer than 255 characters.

On a Mac use the command key when you read control.

On the Macintosh, the Return and Enter keys perform two different functions. PCs don't have a Return key.

The Return key referrs to the key marked Enter that's immediately to the right of the quotes key.

The Enter key refers to the keypad Enter key, to the right of the keypad number 3 key.

Return key creates a new line.

Terminology

The parent is any line with sub-items or children indented to the right below it.

A parent can also be a child.

A child is an indented line and may also have children of its own.

A bundle is a group of lines at the same level in the outline hierarchy.

The current line is either highlighted or contains the cursor.

Menu Items

Expand: will expand the child lines one level of indent below the selected parent.

Expand All Subheads: will fully expand all levels of child lines of a selected parent.

Expand Everything: will fully expand all lines.

Collapse: will collapse all the child lines of a selected parent.

Collapse Everything: collapses all lines to the top level parent lines of the outline hierarchy.

Collapse To Parent: will collapse all child lines to the selected parent.

Toggle Comment: will toggle a line between being a commented or non-commented line, indicated by the chevron character.

Move Up, Move Down, Move Left, Move Right: will move selected line.

Make First: will move the current line to top of its bundle.

Make Last: will move current line to bottom of its bundle.

Promote: the bundle of lines below to the current line will be moved one indent to the right.

Demote: all lines within a bundle and below current line will move one indent to the right.

Sort: all lines within the current bundle will be sorted alphabetically.

Delete All Sub-Heads: all sub-items to the current line will be deleted. Warning: this can't be undone.

Triangles

A black triangle means the item possesses collapsed (hidden) sub-items.

A grey triangle means the item either has no sub-items or is expanded already.

Selecting

Command-A selects all of the lines in the current bundle.

Shift-double-click on a triangle will select all of the lines in the current bundle.

Section and Content modes

In selection mode, all of a line is highlighted.

In content mode, the line is NOT hightlighted and is ready for editing.

The Enter key toggles between selection and content mode.

At any point typing will toggle a selected line to content mode.

Delete a selected line (and its sub-items) with the Delete key.

Collapse and Expand

Double-clicking to the right or left (or on the triangle) of a headline will toggle between collapse and expand.

Command-comma on a selected headline will toggle between collapse and expand.

Keypad - and + will collapse or expand headlines.

Moving Around

Up-arrow and down-arrow move up and down within a bundle.

Left-arrow and right arrow move up and down the whole outline, following the indents.

Control-down-arrow moves you down one item, but expands the item you just left.

Control-up-arrow takes you to the line above on the same level, collapsing if open.

Moving Items

Control-U, control-D, control-L, and control-R move the currently selected line up, down, left, and right respectively.

When moving an item, all its sub-items will along with it, whether they are showing (expanded) or not.

When moving a line with control-L, it jumps to the next available slot at the next higher level of indentation.

Comment lines

Comment lines are marked by a chevron character.

Created with Shift-Return.

Control-backslash will toggle a line between commented and non-commented.