[Vimoutliner] General question about outlining

[Yang]

On 4/24/07, Noel Henson noel-at-noels-lab.com |vimoutliner|
<...> wrote:
> Yang,
>
> You can do what you want. You will have to modify the comments syntax and
> possibly text wrapping settings. What you may want to investigate is

Can you point out what specifically I should modify? I'm unfamiliar
with vimscripting.

> otl2html. You can convert a VO outline into html. It supports numeric
> heading numbering and bullets. Keep in mind that VO is an outline editor
> that is supposed to be very high-speed, keyboarder friendly. When creating

Hmm...is there something about the style I pasted that makes it
non-keyboard-friendly? It seems my suggestion is actually simpler to
operate than the VO syntax because it doesn't add the responsibility
of maintaining two kinds of outline items; i.e. the user need not
distinguish header and body items.

> visually appealing outlines, it is customary to relay on a post-processor.
> My preference (not because I wrote it) is otl2html.py. You can find
> a stable version in the VO package and a beta version on my website
> www.noels-lab.com.

Thanks, but I'm not actually interested in presentation issues. I'm
asking because I find VO too awkward for me to use for my note-taking.

>
> If this isn't what you had in mind or you don't find what you want at
> www.vimoutliner.org or www.noels-lab.com, let all of us know. You may have
> hit on a feature we should add to VO.
>
> Thanks for using VO!
>
> Noel
> VO Developer (but not inventor)
>
>
>
> On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Yang wrote:
> > Hi, is it possible to use VimOutliner simply for working with the
> > following style of outline?
> >
> >  - plugin will auto-insert bullets when i
> >    manually break a line
> >  - plugin will auto-hanging-indent when
> >    the text wraps (and preferably
> >    maintain filled lines as I edit)
> >      - hitting tab (or something) will
> >        indent the outline
> >      - hitting shift-tab will de-indent
> >        the outline (instead of needing
> >        to manually delete the correct
> >        amount)
> >
> > Basically, this is close to what you'd find in any WYSIWYG outline
> > editor, but for some reason I have never been able to find anything
> > like this in the text editor world (vim/emacs). If you know of any
> > such resource, I would greatly appreciate the tip. Thanks in advance!
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