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You already have fairly general-purpose tree editing right under your nose - look at GUIs for your filesystem.

You can drag and drop folders and files. You can see the hierarchy on one side of your screen, and then the contents of a single node on another. Minimizing/expanding usually works. You can rename things in-place.

If you're imagining tree structures that don't map really well to this kind of GUI, then the reason your tree editor doesn't exist should be apparent.



Assuming one agrees that filesystems map really well to that kind of GUI in the first place. It's not obvious to me that they do.


and you can get a neat ASCII representation by using 'tree' in the directory.


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