[Vimoutliner] Discrepancies with Debian/Ubuntu, documentation, and some questions

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 22 May 2008 00:25, Mark S. wrote:

> QUESTION: Why is the vimoutliner.org site so dormant? It looks like nothing
> has happened since September 07. I'm asking because I'm hesitant to start a
> new learning curve on a product if its no longer supported.

I think we're not doing much development because we're satisfied with the main 
VimOutliner product. Except for cloning, it has everything Grandview had, and 
it's MUCH faster for a touch typist. My understanding is that VO is right up 
there with the "golden age" outliners of the late 1980's and early 1990's.

VO is now a pretty mature product. Speaking for myself, it does everything I 
could ever dream of except cloning, and I doubt cloning is possible using Vim 
as an engine.

The other VO feature not mature is hoisting -- it sometimes does bad things 
and I wouldn't use it. Personally, I don't need hoisting, and I guess most 
others feel the same way.

The main action in the VimOutliner world has been addons, the latest of which 
is the TKDO project, which, if I understand correctly, implements a loose 
subset of GTD (Getting Things Done methodology) using VimOutliner outlines as 
its native format.

As far as the worry that it isn't supported, don't worry about that. If our 
current maintainer and main developer, Noel Henson, was run over by a train, 
and then a future Vim broke VO, I can probably name at least five people 
ready, willing and able to make it work again. I would be one of them. There 
are probably more than 20 people on this list whose daily business activities 
are completely integrated with VO. I'm one of them.

Hope this helps.

SteveT
 
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