Hierarchical Editor

[François Pinard]

[Thomas Guettler]

> I love emacs for editing source code.  But I need something that
> can be used by everybody.

Hey, hey!  But Emacs _can_ be used by everybody :-) :-).

[John Hunter]
> [Thomas Guettler]

> > Hi!  Does someoone know an editor for editing hierarchical text data?
> > I need it for something like a todo-list.  One task can have several
> > subtasks.

> Emacs has a number of todo modes:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ToDo

For my simple needs.  I'm happy to edit my TODO files in Emacs' Outline
mode, or more precisely, the Allout mode flavour, which I find cleaner.

Besides TODO files, Allout is very convenient for writing short manuals,
the overall sketch of bigger documents, inventories, indexes, and many other
such things.  I much prefer knowing one generic folding mode covering many
possible applications, than over-specialised modes, like TODO modes may be.

-- 
François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard