[Vimoutliner] how to abstract from tree to graphs, or at least have hyperlinks

[Peter Princz]

Hi VimOutliners,

On 15/06/06, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 15 June 2006 09:35 am, Peter Princz wrote:
> > Sorry for the noise, still thinking aloud.
> > I found and tested the first workaround: by inserting a unique
> > timestamp into the lines involved into the back-and-forth jump, *
> > could be used to do the trick and still, the two strings can be
> > different. (Imagine foo is the slogan in the Diary, while bar is the
> > project wbs leaf in the example below. Don't want to repeat the whole
> > example with the <tab>'s...)
> >
> >       [_] foo, will jump to bar (#20060615151946#)
> >       [_] test, will be jumped over (#20060615152238#)
> >       [_] bar, will jump to foo (#20060615151946#)
> >
>> ...
> > The timestamp has the additional benefit of showing the age of a task,
> > i.e. when it was created or selected to be done on a certain date...
> >
>
> I tried it, it works -- pretty slick!
>
> Now my question is this... Is this better than tweaking interoutline linking
> to enable intRAoutline linking, in which case you'd go one way with Ctrl+K,
> and back via Ctrl+N.
>
> In 2001 I tried to implement intRAoutline linking along with intERoutline
> linking, but I ran out of time trying to understand the ctags documentation.
> Nevertheless, the reading I did at the time indicates that it's doable in a
> straightforward manner -- I just don't know exactly how.
>
> The VO syntax would probably be:
>
> _tag_localtree
>         #mylabel
>
> The same thing would also implement jumping to a *particular part* of another
> outline, as in...
>
> _tag_specific_tree_in_other_file
>         /data/programming/c/myspecs.otl#mylabel
>
> All that's required to do this is a knowledge of ctags. I think the mods to
> vo_maketags.pl would be easy. As far as backward compatibility, we rebuild
> our tags every time we incorporate a new file, so we'd simply switch tag file
> formats on one of those rebuilds.
>
> If we decide to do the timestamp method (or both), it would be pretty easy to
> create a commacomma command to install the pound sign delimited timestamp,
> while leaving ,,d and ,,t as they are.
>
> So, who is a ctags expert?
>
> Good idea Peter!
>
> SteveT
>

for the records only: I've been testing this workaround for approx. 3
weeks and I'm very happy with it. I think I'll stick with it and leave
the ctags path for others.
There was a minor issue but I could fix it: imagine a week when you
want to be reminded every day from Monday thru Friday to roll the ball
a bit forward in a project. Then * on Monday will *not* jump to the
actual work item in the work breakdown structure, but to Tuesday,
Wednesday, etc. instead. This can be a pain.
However, if you have top level intries in your outline (Diary and
Tasks for example), and have bookmarks for these, then it's quite
simple to "jump out" from Diary, irrespective of how many links do you
have put to a given work item.

So I do * on the timestamp in the reminder in the Diary, and if it
keeps me still in Diary, then a 'T to jump to 'Tasks', and n from
there to jump to the needed item.

This way I can have arbitrary number of reminders to a given work item.

Have a nice day,
  Peter

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