[Vimoutliner] Vim Outliner 0.4.0 Final Feature Request

Scott Scriven vimoutliner at toykeeper.net
Wed Jan 3 14:58:32 EST 2007


> I'd like to see it default to not putting those dashes and plusses and
> stuff before headlines on new Vim versions.

That would be nice.

> I'd like to see a more functional and less dangerous hoist.

I guess I'm not the only one who had issues with it.  I tried it
on some test outlines, and ended up losing most of the outline...
so I haven't been using hoist at all.

> I would like closed folds to be the same color as indentation level.

That'd be nice too.

And I'd like to see the ability to use percent checkboxes both
with and without children.  For example:

[_] 50% Todo
	[_] 50% foo
	[_] 50% bar
		[X] a
		[_] b

Currently, hitting ,,cz or ,,cx in that outline will reset "foo"
to 0% and "Todo" to 25%.  So, I have to put dummy items under
"foo" and toggle them rather than just editing the percent
directly.

I'd also find it useful to have support for "[+]" as an indicator
for a partially-completed checkbox, "[ ]" for todos, and "[*]"
for completed items...  or perhaps just configurable checkbox
indicators.  For years, I've been using a slightly different
system:

	- todo
	+ partially completed
	* completed
	x cancelled, or invalid
	? undecided / unknown

It'd be nice if VO could be configured to use that instead.

Another feature request: I think this might be possible, using
vim's comment leaders...  make new items copy the type/style of
the item the cursor was just on.  So, if you've got the cursor on
a checkbox item and hit "o", the new line would begin with a
checkbox.  For example...  if I had an outline like this:

	[_] foo
	[_] bar

... and the cursor was on the "foo" line...  I either hit "o"
from command mode, or press enter in insert mode at the end of
the line...  the outline should become:

	[_] foo
	[_] 
	[_] bar

These are just some wishlist items, though.  VO is already pretty
good as-is.  :)


-- Scott


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