[Vimoutliner] What is "Mark and Gather" as it relates to outlines?

[Ross Boylan]

On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 16:12 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Outliners.Com I recently read about a feature called "Mark and Gather". 
> It's supposed to be really handy, but it was from the golden age and is 
> missing on modern outliners. Anyone know what it is, and why it's so handy?
> 
> SteveT

Marking allows you to mark arbitrary elements (that is, headings) in the
outline.  They need not be contiguous, at the same level, etc.

Gather allows you to gather all these together in one place.  Grandview
offers various options: move them all below the current headline at the
same level, move them all as subheads of the current headline, copy
them, clone them (I think).

Moving/copying whatever a headline will move all subheads of that item
as well.

It permits easy, free-form reorganization of the outline.  My main use
of it is taking items from my todo list and putting them on my done
list.