created by

Ned Konz

script type

ftplugin

description

TVO (The Vim Outliner) is my solution for text outlining in Vim. It works a lot like Word's outline support, but is much more vim-compatible. It has syntax highlighting, embedded text blocks, shortcut mappings using both  LocalLeader and arrow keys, and works reasonably well with Vim Easy. There is a toolbar that will be familiar to you if you've used Word's outliner. You can extract just text, or just headings if you wish; there's also some converters (to HTML, Perl POD, and to RTF) included. Please email me with bug reports, improvements, comments or more documentation (badly needed!).

install details

Installing in a local or global .vim directory You will want to install TVO into a directory in your Vim runtimepath (:he 'runtimepath'). Type the command :set runtimepath To find out what it is set to. This will display a list of directories separated by commas. On my Linux system, these directories are: ~/.vim /usr/local/share/vim/vimfiles /usr/local/share/vim/vim60 /usr/local/share/vim/vimfiles/after ~/.vim/after I installed TVO into my ~/.vim directory. I could have also installed it so it would be available to all the users on my system by putting it into either the /usr/local/share/vim/vimfiles or /usr/local/share/vim/vim60 directories. Installing the binaries I've included some scripts in Perl and Ruby that I use for conversion of .otl files to HTML, RTF, and Perl POD. There is also a pod2otl converter. You can move these to a directory on your path (you may also have to change the shebang (#!) lines).

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
vimoutliner-1.56.zip	1.56	23-Dec-2002	6.0	Ned Konz	Fixed compatibility with old (numeric) settings of backspace.
vimoutliner-1.55.zip	1.55	22-Dec-2002	6.0	Ned Konz	1.47-1.55 added doc/otl.txt help file changed otl_install_mappings to no_otl_maps (reversed logic) changed otl_install_insert_mappings to no_otl_insert_maps (reversed logic) limited text markers to just '|' improved text extract made it work with :set nomagic removed accidental changes to mappings and settings outside of outline buffers, including 'backspace', 'smarttab', and 'J' mapping fixed menu entries to reflect new commands added OtlToggleBodyText() that can change back and forth from heading to text fixed insert-mode mappings
vimoutliner-1.47.zip	1.47	19-Dec-2002	6.0	Ned Konz	Initial upload