[Vimoutliner] Why VimOutliner on Windows?

[Tim Roberts]

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.
>  
>

I've tried several, and never found one that didn't require a "lifestyle
change".  That is, I would have had to modify my thought patterns to
conform to their way of thinking.

If you have a list of suggestions I should try, please let me know.  To
paraphrase a famous quote, VimOutliner is the worst possible outlining
tool, except for all of the others.

>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?
>  
>

One MAJOR reason is that I have the source code.  If there's something I
hate, instead of just complaining about it, I can go fix it.  Another
major reason is that I use command-line tools for many things, and VO
stores things in human-readable form.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.