The CotEditor’s Outline feature extracts specific parts of your document and generates a list according to the definition of the syntax.
The generated outline is shown in the navigation bar and the inspector.
The Outline menu is a pop-up menu appears in the navigation bar located above the editor. The menu shows the nearest Outline item above the insertion point. By selecting an item in the menu, the editor moves the insertion point to the corresponding part and scrolls.
To show the Outline menu:
The Outline inspector is a table-style list that appears in the Outline pane in the inspector of the document. You can get a quick overview of the document’s outline like a table of contents and move to the corresponding part in the editor by clicking an item in the list.
To show the Outline inspector, perform either of the followings:
You can move the insertion point in the editor to the previous/next Outline item by choosing Find > Select Previous/Next Outline Item.
The rules, what items should appear and how they should be titled in the Outline list, are set per syntax. You can configure them in the Syntax definition > outline settings.