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

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 03 August 2007 15:52, Bill Powell wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> Thanks for mentioning my post:
>
> http://www.billpowellisalive.com/2007/01/vimoutliner-and-a-tweak-to-use-col
>orschemes/
>
> For my part, it's strange to think of the guy who came up with VO
> having a look at my post. Very cool.

:-) In mid 2001, hacking together a bunch of Vim config and a couple 
perlscripts to make a kludge outliner so I could personally continue to do 
outlines, I really would have thought it strange to be referred to as "the 
guy who came up with VO". :-)


>
> 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.

Would you be able to make VimPin downloadable from VimOutliner.Org also?
>
> 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 Bill,

I've put my VO book on hold because my Vim book has sold poorly (at least so 
far). My next book will be a math book.

Thanks

SteveT