[Vimoutliner] General question about outlining

[Tim Roberts]

Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 April 2007 12:51, Tim Roberts wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Your mileage may vary, but what I found over the years is that slowly my 
> outlining adapted to VO and that my headlines became shorter. Often a long 
> headline adapts itself to decomposition into a main headline and several 
> children, and the longer you use VO, the more natural that becomes. Now that 
> VO has body text another alternative is a short headline whose first child is 
> a paragraph of body text.
>
> I still frequently have long headlines, especially when taking notes based on 
> a verbal presentation. In that case I leave them long (Vim cleanly handles 
> lines hundreds of characters long), and modify them later.
>   

Your points are excellent, and perhaps I should have made it more clear
that I was just "pining for the fjords".  I don't actually expect to see
this as a new feature in VO any time soon.  However, if someone posted a
patch that handled it -- perhaps through automatic bulleting -- I would
install it in an instant.

It was just interesting to see someone else who had the same reaction I
do.  I don't really run VO often enough to have it alter my behavior, so
naturally I want it to bend to match my expectations.  Maybe I should
have stopped at "+1".

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

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