F1 Help File keyboard shortcut to expand / collapse tree?

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Just began using the html Help File pressing F1 - previously preferred .pdf version
b/c of capability to highlight, underline, bookmark, annotate, etc.

Are there keyboard shortcuts to collapse/expand the entire tree at once?
and also individual sections? Is this similar to registry tree expand/collapse?

And, from curiosity - how about for .chm - is a .chm shortcut "universal" for all .chm?

Finally - as I read old Tim Berners-Lee writings - my impression is that he wanted the capability to edit html pages w/ persistent changes on a local machine -
sure, using browser devtools allows temp editing but it doesn't persist upon refresh.

Is there actually some app that will do this nowadays?
I've become so attached to the functionality in pdf to edit, annotate, paste images, etc.

I'd love to be able to edit the html Help on my local machine in that way.

Oh! it just now occurs to me that opening the html file in a capable editor (e.g. Notepad++)
should allow for this? .... but it doesn't have that "clean look" of opening html in a browser ??

Thx!

edit: playing w/ this last idea - I searched and found

"C:\Users\d\AppData\Local\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\Help Cache\v12.26\searchindex.js" ,

then tried manipulating that, along with the standard

"C:\Program Files\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\Help\dopus.chm" file in Notepad++ --

but I see that it involves javascript interactions-dependencies as well as alot of .xml.

I'd still appreciate understanding if there's some way to edit in the browser w/ persistent changes?

Sorry this is like 2 Help requests - I'll split it out to a separate request if you like :slight_smile:

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As in expand every node in the table of contents? Not that I know of. (But it's possible. We wrote the manual but not the javascript etc. which displays the manual, which is from a documentation tool.)

I don't understand the question, sorry.

That idea never happened.

If you edit the temp files, they'll only be deleted again in the future the next time the manual gets updated. It's not worth the trouble.

There may be browser extensions that let you add notes to web pages (which is what the manual is, as far as the web browser is concerned). I haven't tried any and don't know how well they work.

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Thx for all that Leo!

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