[Vimoutliner] Correct objects behavior

[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 13 March 2007 06:06, Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I played around with VimOutliner 0.3.4 on Vim 7. However, as I wrote in
> an earlier posting, I do not manage to deal with the text body parts,
> which show leading ":".
>
> In ":help outline" I found what I have been looking for:
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Lines starting with a colon and space word-wrap
>      Lines starting with colons are body text. They should
>      word wrap and should be a special color (typically
>      green, but it can vary). Verify that paragraphs of body
>      text can be reformatted with the Vim gq commands.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> If I understand this correctly, line wrapping should be on, but there
> also should be a leading ":" at the next line automatically inserted.
> Additionally, reformatting using gq should not mess up the leading ":".
> Right?
>
> Both do not work for me: After a line break, there is no leading ":"
> inserted. Also, gq reformats also colons as if their would be normal
> text, which may make them appear anywhere, but not necessarily at the
> lines' leading position.
>
> Am I the only one with this behavior?

It's certainly not normal. Do your files end in .otl? If not, that would 
explain it.

How did you install VO -- with the install script, or manually? Are you 
running it on Linux?

>
> Another question: When writing a heading line in VimOutliner, the line
> breaks automatically and starts a second line at the same level. Is this
> intended?

No -- that's the opposite of what's intended. Body text should word wrap, 
normal headlines should not.

Steve

Steve Litt
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