[Vimoutliner] Why VimOutliner on Windows?

[Charles Burkins]

On Sep 4, 2006, at 7:58 PM, Steve Litt wrote:

> 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?

Although I do like free (as in speech) software, for me the reasons  
are that:

1. It's text based (i.e. works well in revision control systems).
2. It's available for Win32, OS X, FreeBSD, and Linux.

At work, I use Windows, OS X, and FreeBSD. At home I use Windows, OS  
X, FreeBSD, and Linux. I keep some of my key notes in a personal SVN  
repository, and use VO on them. That way, I can access them from any  
of my computers, they are auto-magically merged together, and I can,  
with a small amount of difficulty, access them from nearly any location.

I've tried using the outliners available for Mac OS X (my preferred  
OS), and they are sweet, and sometimes more powerful than VO. But if  
I'm working on Win32 that day, my notes are unavailable. Add to that  
the fact that if one is proficient in Vim, VO is fast to use, and the  
benefits outweight the lacks.


-Chuck