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I find that tab-indented text outlines work better than multiple-space indents for interchange with other apps (through file or clipboard).

Whereas the OS X OmniOutliner offers tab-indented text export, the iPad app's Send to app as Plain Text only offers multiple spaces, which for example, are not recognised as logical indents when pasted into something like Cotton Notes, and are interpreted as code paragraphs by Markdown-idiom editors like FoldingText.

A tab-indented text export would would allow iOs OO to get much more use than it currently does on my iPad.

(It already does a very good job of reading tab-indented text – the asymmetry seems a pity …)

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Last edited by RobTrew; 2012-11-01 at 06:06 AM..
 
I guess one could write a line or two of clipboard-transforming Python in Pythonista in the meanwhile, but it seems a little circuitous ...
 
FWIW the iPad clipboard can indeed be transformed with something like this (run in Pythonista).

Code:
import clipboard, re

str_clip = clipboard.get()

# Translate each sequence of 4 spaces to a tab
str_clip = re.sub('    ', '\t', str_clip)
# Unbreak wrap-broken lines (look for residual spaces after tab)
str_clip = re.sub('[\r\n]+\t* ',' ', str_clip)
# Add Markdown bullets between tab and text ? iOS OmniOutliner adds them anyway ...
# str_clip = re.sub(r'^(\s*)(\S)', r'\1- \2', str_clip, flags=re.MULTILINE)
# Prune duplicate space
str_clip = re.sub(r' {2,}', r' ', str_clip)

clipboard.set(str_clip)
 
Thanks Rob - very useful - informed me a out pythonista too, which looks quite useful.
 
 


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