[Vimoutliner] Why VimOutliner on Windows?

[Andy Todd]

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

I'm like Matthew, I came to VOL because I use Vim for everything. I 
suspect that I use Vim because I can do everything from the keyboard.

I also like that it's free software (in both senses of the phrase) but 
its not the primary driver for me.

The other main reasons I use Vim is similar to most of the other people 
who have replied - it's cross platform (I regularly use Mac OSX, Windows 
and Linux). The reason I use it to write my outlines is because it works 
with plain text files.

I store all of my working files in a Subversion repository so plain text 
is a bonus. Like a couple of other people in this thread I also have a 
number of utility scripts that process these files. Plain text is all I 
need, if I want fancy output I can use tools like ot2html.

I haven't previously used any other outliners in a serious fashion. I've 
played with MS Word's outline features and with OmniOutliner on my Mac 
but neither really 'clicked' for me. OmniOutliner nearly did until I 
needed access to some information in an outline document and didn't have 
my Mac with me.

I also dabbled with Emacs, but I'm over that now and the medication is 
working very nicely.

Regards,
Andy
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