Tue, 03 Feb 2009

Getting vimoutliner to work again

I'm a fan of organizing information and for a while I used Dave Winer's OPML editor for lesson planning and other outlining stuff. But since I'm using Debian on the eeePC, I've switched over to an old standby: vimoutliner. It's built upon some of the folding features of vim 7 and I think I like the idea of trying to use one app for as many things as possible.

Vim allows me to fulfill this and keep to the plain text idea of making documents.

The issue that I ran into today was vim not recognizing the .otl file format and not rendering the outline with all of its indenting and color. I finally resolved the issue by downloading the most recent version (slightly old in software terms: 2005) and running the install.sh script.

Now, all is well.

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