[Vimoutliner] Proposal: reverse indenting outliner

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 10 March 2007 11:41, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Saturday 10 March 2007 09:25, ImLikeWhoa wrote:
> > I keep a lot of note and project files in the form of outlines.   I now
> > just read them as text files, but would like to fold away sections of my
> > file the way vim's TVO does.
> >
> > The present TVO presents outlines in the form like the normal Word
> > outline style, namely
> >
> > Main heading
> > 	subheading
> > 	another subheading
> > 		subheading of this subheading
> > 			smaller headings and text.
> >
> > My outline format is based on the notion that indenting a paragraph marks
> > a division and so more indenting (leading tabs) should mark larger
> > divisions. so my outlines look like this:
> >
> > 					Main heading
> > 				subheading
> > 				another subheadding
> > 			subheading of this subheading
> > 		smaller headings
> > text
> >
> > It seems like the TVO vim plugin could be taught to handle this
> > indent-based outline style with a few minor changes in the program.  The
> > scheme would be the same as TVO, except that more tabs indicate a higher
> > level of heading rather than a lower one.  The indent style is readily
> > distinguishable from the normal outline style in the source file, because
> > the first line in the indent style begins with several tab characters,
> > while a normal .otl file does not.
> >
> > 			So I have two queries for you forum members
> > 		Do you know of anyone who has thought about implementing this
> > indent-based outline scheme using the TVO plugin?
> > 		Would you be interested in implementing this mode within TVO if I paid
> > you?   Since it would fit easily into TVO, others could then use it, too.
>
> There are two different Linux outliners, TVO and VO. We're VO. Is that who
> you wanted?
>
> It would be trivial to create a program to take a normal outline and
> reverse it. I think a good name for the program would be mirror.rb :-) It
> would be a 2 pass program -- pass 1 counts the highest indentation in the
> outline, and pass 2 recalculates indentation based on (max - this).
>
> As far as using VO to create a "reverse outline", I think you can do that
> with VO the way it is, always assuming you can think that way.
>
> SteveT


ImLikeWhoa,

See if the attached program, vo_mirror.sh, does what you need. By the way, my 
casual testing indicates it can also be used to turn your reverse outlines 
into normal outlines.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/
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