[Vimoutliner] Extending VO

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 24 March 2008 20:45, Scott Scriven wrote:
> * Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> > Imagine if VO's native format were a filesystem.
>
> Heh, I posted about this on 01-19, subject "Re: [Vimoutliner]
> [OT] ThoughtManager".  The idea has been rolling around for a
> while, but I haven't had time or motivation to implement it.
>
> Essentially, it's an object tree stored on disk, using filesystem
> concepts.  The hard part is that object trees don't map cleanly
> onto any major filesystems.  Something gets lost in translation.
> It may be "close enough", though.
>
> As for its relation to VO, well, the idea isn't very compatible
> with Vim.  You might end up with an awesome outliner, but it
> wouldn't be a good text editor any more.

Hi Scott,

What's an object tree? What's different about it than any other hierarchy? If 
it doesn't map cleanly onto a filesystem, how about XML, or maybe Ruby YAML?

Thanks

SteveT