[Vimoutliner] Why VimOutliner on Windows?

[Matthew Weier O'Phinney]

On 9/4/06, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> 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'd never used an outliner before, unless you consider HTML <ul>s and
<ol>s outlining.

I started using VOL because I was (and am) proficient in vim (I use it
for all my text-based tasks, from programming to email to journaling),
wanted a tool for outlining my ideas and potentially tracking
progress, and wanted a tool that I could easily use in multiple
environments.

I've been using VOL for several years now, both on linux and more
recently Windows. It's always a part of my base vim install. Vim allows
me to write and edit *anything* blazing fast, and VOL allows me to
outline similarly. The folding features make it easy to create
summarized lists, the checkboxes allow me to track progress, and
tools such as otl2html let me format my outlines for my colleagues to
read. Because it's straight text, I can also easily pull the contents
into wikis with a few quick regexen, giving me portability.

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Matthew Weier O'Phinney
mweierophinney at gmail.com
http://weierophinney.net/matthew/