Document tree / outline / TOC for navigation?

[Rainer Krug]

Hi

I really love BBEdit. I use it to edit (R)markdown documents as well as R code. There is only one thing which I am missing, which is in RStudio, i.e. an outline view of the document for quick navigation.

I have found the one in the dropdown on the top of the document, but the fact that it gives the level of the header in the icon, makes it a little bit difficult to see - indentation would make the navigation much easier.

My question: is it possible to customise that drop down display to have indentation, or is there a way of seeing the document layout (headers) for navigation in an additional window?

Thanks,

Rainer

[Greg Raven]

This sounds to be a feature request, hence:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bbedit/UXFkRnxg77M

[Rainer Krug]

Well - the question was "is it possible to customise that drop down display to have indentation, or is there a way of seeing the document layout (headers) for navigation in an additional window?" and the answer is presumably in this case a "No".

Thanks,

Rainer

[Patrick Woolsey]

On Jun 23, 2020, at 08:21, Rainer Krug <Rai...@krugs.de> wrote:
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> Well - the question was "is it possible to customise that drop down display to have indentation, or is there a way of seeing the document layout (headers) for navigation in an additional window?" and the answer is presumably in this case a "No".

Though it's not possible to apply custom indentation to the contents of the Function popup, you can display those items in a separate (searchable) palette via Go -> Functions, in case that may help. :-)


Regards,

Patrick Woolsey
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Bare Bones Software, Inc. <https://www.barebones.com/>

[Rainer Krug]

On Tuesday, June 23, 2020 at 4:14:26 PM UTC+2, Patrick Woolsey wrote:

On Jun 23, 2020, at 08:21, Rainer Krug <Rai...@krugs.de> wrote:
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> Well - the question was "is it possible to customise that drop down display to have indentation, or is there a way of seeing the document layout (headers) for navigation in an additional window?" and the answer is presumably in this case a "No".


Though it's not possible to apply custom indentation to the contents of the Function popup, you can display those items in a separate (searchable) palette via Go -> Functions, in case that may help. :-)

Yes - that definitely helps.

Thanks,

Rainer 

[Martin Post]

While that popup is a great feature, I’d like to support Rainer’s suggestion. Indentation in the function menu (and said popup) would help a lot when editing complex HTML or Markdown documents. I will sometimes open long documents in another app with an indented ToC / Outline view (Marked2 or MultiMarkdown Composer) just to get a better bird’s eye view.

(Add the ability to _move_ sections of Markdown document around in the popup, and I’m in Markdown Editing Heaven. :)