spiralofhope said on Sat, 7 Aug 2021 10:37:58 -0700

>On Sat, 07 Aug 2021 16:21:47 +0930
>dvalin@??? wrote:
>
>> On 30.07.21 11:28, spiralofhope wrote:>
>> > I also mean that if there are any complex ideas or words, those can
>> > be explained in separate specific-documentation in the same way
>> > that code does it.
>
>> My preferred method for nesting descriptive prose, and presenting
>> the whole on one page, is to use folding in vim.
>
>I understand this method.
>
>However, I disagree with it because it introduces a software dependency
>and something like a new workflow.
>
>Breaking out specific blocks of documentation to a new file is similar
>to splitting out a chunk of code and putting it in a new file. It has
>side benefits like allowing a specialist to work on that chunk of text
>separately.
>
>All of this, including collaboration to improve it, reminds me of a
>wiki, but I'm biased because I was very heavily interested in wikis at
>(and well before) their rise.

Wikis are much harder to back up than tab indented outlines. Tab
indented outlines can pull in external files when used with VimOutliner.

The essentials of VimOutliner is almost instantly usable by a person
familiar with Vim, although researching ":help vo" is necessary for most
efficient use.

Unfortunately, VimOutliner has been, in my opinion, been left in a sad
state by the maintainers who followed myself and Noel Henson. Within a
few days I'll put up a working and efficient, if a couple versions
behind, tgz for VimOutliner.

WARNING: Don't use the Debian VimOutliner package. This package has
autocratically replaced the comma comma command prefix with something
much, much slower and more keyboard dependent. VimOutliner is simple
enough to install via tgz plus a few copy commands: Noel and I found
distro packages to be counter productive.

Within a few days I'll post vimoutliner-0.3.5 or vimoutliner-0.3.4,
which are the final two TRUE VimOutliner versions, having all the most
used features intact.

SteveT

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