[Vimoutliner] Why VimOutliner on Windows?

[Ross Boylan]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 19:58 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
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> 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. 
There's always xdosemu on linux.  It used to be the case that grandview
would use all the CPU in this mode, but with recent releases that
problem has gone away.

Unfortunately, also with recent releases the very nice handling (by
xdosemu) of VGA mode seems to have vanished as well.

The other problem I have with GrandView is that I've hit the memory
limit, and so can't add more to my main outline.

I mostly don't use Windows, so this isn't a response to your original
query.  At various times in the past I've tried the outline features of
MS Word and WordPerfect, as well as emacs, and I've always found them
incredibly clunky.  They might be tolerable for creating an outline, but
not for manipulating it.  Perhaps they are better now, but it mystified
me that people considered them viable alternatives to dedicated
outliners.

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