[Vimoutliner] General question about outlining

[Tim Roberts]

Yang wrote:
>
> 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.

The only "incompatibility" I see between VO and your requirements is
with the text wrapping.  Normally, in vim, when you wrap a line of text
using something like wrapmargin, it begins a new line.  In VO, every new
line is a new outline item.  If you think about what you're asking, how
would VO be able to tell the difference between a continuation and a new
item?  Remember that outlines are stored as plain text.

This concept is worth some serious thought, because this is actually
something I've wanted as well.  In random note taking, many of my
outline items are longer than 75 columns.  I would like to have them
wrapped in a reasonably pretty fashion, but I've never been able to come
up with an algorithm for handling that.

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