Fast Word Processor w RTF & Outlining

Posted by sracer
Aug 24, 2007 at 03:11 AM

Your request got me reminiscing about the good old DOS textmode days and an awesome outliner called PC-Outline. I did a quick google search for “folding editors” and found EControl. It is advertised as a syntax editor, but it supports outlining and the ability to expand/collapse outline entries. It doesn’t do RTF unfortunately. But it is blazingly fast… and free.

http://www.econtrol.ru/index.html

What’s nice about EControl is that you can define your own “lexer” (syntax/lexical analyzer). So if the default behavior for plain text files doesn’t work for you, you can customize it and configure EControl to behave they way that YOU want it to. You can easily define your own control codes/characters to change the way EControl works.

I’ve got a few projects on various burners, but time permitting I just might dig into creating my own outliner/organizer lexer/profile for it. It is amazingly quick.