[Vimoutliner] General question about outlining

[Yang]

On 4/25/07, Steve Litt slitt-at-troubleshooters.com |vimoutliner|
<...> wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 April 2007 14:46, J Irving wrote:
>
> > Wouldn't the use of a bullet character of some kind take care of
> > this?  So for example, if you had a line which looked like this:
>
> Hi J and Yang,
>
> VO's lack of bullets is a result of the project's charter -- the priorities
> that guided its creation and evolution. You can see the project charter here:
>
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/projects/vimoutliner/index.htm#Charter
>
> Basically, a bullet is one more character to type (and usually wrist twisting
> character at that). This doesn't preclude bullets -- it just means VO should
> always be operable in and default to the no-bullet mode for ultimate
> outlining speed.

Actually I suggested automatic bulleting. Make no mistake, I'm all for
minimal typing as well.

>
> I think what you desire is doable. Vim knows the contents of the line it's on,
> it knows the first character of the line, and it can probably set textwidth
> properly and maybe even insert the next bullet when you hard-return. The main
> question I'd have is whether the extra code would cause VO to perform more
> slowly and whether the extra code would provide more nooks and crannies for
> bugs to hide. If you do this, it would probably be best to make it as a
> separate VO module that can be included or not -- kind of like checkboxes and
> hoisting.

I'm not sure this should be a part of VO either (but I figured that if
anybody could point me in the right direction, it would be someone on
the VO mailing list). VO seems to be geared toward something quite
different from what I'm interested in (simple note-taking), with many
powerful features like cloning which I don't need.

I don't usually distinguish between headlines and bodies. I can
certainly choose to make all my list items bodies, but that leads to a
lot of double-spacing between paragraphs (which are frequently just a
single line of text).

Anyway, for now, org-mode is enough to move me to Emacs.

Thanks,

Yang

>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
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