On May 17, 9:50 am, "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve Litt responded to my recent post about vim bindings. I'll post > our recent correspondence in replies to this post.
Here is Steve's first email to me: QQQQQ Hi Edward, VimOutliner has reached a crossroads. Every outlining feature that can reasonably be added to the Vim engine has been added to the Vim engine. And a lot of people want more features. Just as a tiny example, cloning and hoisting aren't reasonable to add to VimOutliner, at least without involving databases, metatadata files, or other stuff that makes VimOutliner not VimOutliner. A lot of people are wanting GTD modules, and calendaring (we actually have a calendering module but it's not popular anymore). So all of us are pretty much in agreement that we need to build a new, differently named outliner with all the features, and keep VimOutliner in its current state (except for bug fixes) for those who want the fastest outline authoring on the planet. The new outliner must have an available round-trip conversion, at least for all VimOutliner features, between VimOutliner and the new outliner. That way VimOutliner continues to be used for the fastest outlining on the planet, while the new outliner prioritizes the ability to assist in a plethora of human tasks. If I read between the lines, the group is not married to the idea of the new outliner exactly implementing VimOutliner's keystroke interface, because the new outliner's priority is not necessarily speed (not that we want it to be slow). It's been about 4 years since I used Leo, but from what I remember it's extremely featureful. I have no idea if Leo could easily incorporate all our group's needed functions, nor whether its user interface would satisfy our group, nor whether you'd enjoy having additional developers and community members for Leo, but if we can use something that already exists in order to get what we need without too many compromises, that just might be a good thing. Thanks Steve Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ * http://twitter.com/stevelitt Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance QQQQQ Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
