[Vimoutliner] Why VimOutliner on Windows?

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

We now seem to have several Windows users using VimOutliner, and I'm wondering 
why. Windows (and Mac) have several excellent outliners available.

Is part of the reason that you like free software (free both as in beer and as 
in speech)? Is part of it the lightning fast keboardability of VO? Are there 
other reasons?

How many of you Windows users migrated from other outliners, and what 
outliners did you migrate from?

I think most of the early Linux crew worked with other outliners before coming 
to VO. I know I worked with (and loved) Grandview, and also MS Word outline 
view. Both became unavailable when I switched to Linux. 

Looking back on those two excellent outliners, I appreciate VO's keyboarding 
speed, which to me more than makes up for missing features (we don't have 
Grandview's cloning or MS Word's ability to switch between outline and 
document view). The other thing I appreciate is VO's simple native fiie 
format, allowing me to read my outlines without VO, and to write programs to 
manipulate my outlines.

SteveT