[Vimoutliner] Re: I had no idea how popular VO was

[Bill Powell]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for mentioning my post:

http://www.billpowellisalive.com/2007/01/vimoutliner-and-a-tweak-to-use-colorschemes/

For my part, it's strange to think of the guy who came up with VO
having a look at my post. Very cool.

I meant to write back awhile ago when you asked for suggestions on
your upcoming book; perhaps you could mention how you easy it is to
"extend" VO for more specific tasks. 

For instance, I'm planning a new plugin for vim.org that combines an
extended VO with the calendar plugin and a script from vimoutliner.org
to make: VimPim. When you select a day in the calendar, you jump to
that day in your journal. Since it's VO, you can do all the normal
outlining you would with VO, but the extended ".pim" syntax colors
dates and times, marks asterisked "to do" lines boldly with a special
syntax group, etc. You could set the names of friends or clients as
keywords to make them stand out. But all the time, the usage is the
same VO.

Similarly, I'm working on a new "chunk" filetype to use with nosql
(which I found out about at your site).  Nosql is awesome, but it
doesn't lend itself to blocks of text. With the utl plugin, however, I
can have a column that always contains a link to a heading in a "chunk"
file. In the "chunk" file, I can put comments, addresses, changelogs,
whatever, as well as a link back to that field in the nosql table; and
this is another perfect place to use the VO as a base. Now VO is
working with nosql to make it a hundred times easier to manipulate
chunks of text "within" a table then it ever was back in my days of MS
Access or even phpmyadmin.

So a chapter on how to customize and extend VO would be fun.

Thanks again,
Bill Powell
http://billpowellisalive.com

> 
> There are VO packages for Gentoo, Ubuntu and Debian.
> 
> Cool!
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt
> Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
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