Herbert, this is fantastic news. My background is mainly with Vim, but I am very open to learning other software.
I can understand people who don't want to relearn keybindings, etc, but I work on many platforms and have that problem all the time anyway :-). I'm a member of a "vim-geeks" group in St. Louis, and I demoed Org-mode to them last week. The idea of implementing org-mode in Vim was brought up, and I'm sure there are some very talented Vim-scripters in our group who would be interested in your plugin/org-mode system. I'll forward this thread to the vim-geeks group -- please keep up your effort! I think it would be fun to be able to really use org-mode from inside Vim. In addition, we might be able to help you implement some features, or provide feedback. --Nate On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Herbert Sitz <hs...@nwlink.com> wrote: > I've been working on a Vim plugin that is file-compatible with Org-mode and > that > clones a good subset of features. It's gotten to the point where I'd like to > put it up on Github and see if anyone wants to use it and/or help develop it > with me. So far I've implemented a good subset of Org's functionality and, > though it has a few rough edges, right now it could be perfectly usable for > certain people out there who prefer Vim as a text editor, but who have been > drawn to Emacs' Org-mode because of its features. My project isn't at the > point > where it has all the features or the polish of Org-mode, but many Org-mode > users > use only a small subset of Org. For people who prefer Vim and have subsets > coinciding with my project it could be an option. > > I've made a video showing what it looks like and demonstrating some of the > basic > outlining stuff. I just uploaded it to Vimeo, and it tells me it will be > available for viewing in a couple hours (i.e., around 3:15pm PST today, Friday > Nov. 5,2010). When available it will be viewable at this link: > http://vimeo.com/16543959 > > For someone who asks, 'Why would you bother to do this for Vim when it's > already > done in Emacs?", I would have these responses: > > 1. A lot of people don't like Emacs. It is of course an insanely powerful > piece of software, but a lot of people can never get accustomed to the > chord-key > command system, or if they do get semi-accustomed they don't like it or it > causes them physical pain. > 2. Some people are of the opinion that, while Emacs is admittedly a great > operating system/development environment, it lacks a decent text editor. ;) > 3. Emacs and Vim (or Vim and Emacs) are king and queen atop the pile of text > editors. What one has the other should have to, to the extent possible. > 4. I consider myself a Vim person, but I moved to Org-mode and Emacs myself > (made almost palatable to me by Viper and Vimpulse) because I wanted to be > able > to publish outlines to PDF and HTML. Vim has a couple decent outliners but > nobody has bothered to create good export systems for quality output. I had > written some (non-publishing-related) extensions for one of the Vim outliners > and I knew it wouldn't be that hard to write something in Vim that was > file-compatible with Org-mode, which would then be able to publish to PDF and > HTML simply by calling out to an Emacs server. This was my original goal and > it's done and works great. > 5. As I did some work I became more curious about all the task management and > organization features in Org-mode, and how they might be implemented in Vim. > So > I started coding up stuff for the various Org searches, agenda views, sparse > trees, column views, date management, etc. This is actually fun to do and Vim > is well-suited for doing it. So I've kept going. I'm hoping someone else > might > have an interest in doing this with me. > 6. As I said in 5., developing this stuff is fun. > > That's about it. If there's any interest I'll do more videos showing how > other > Org-mode features have been implemented in the Vim plugin, and where they > stand > right now in the Vim plugin compared to Org-mode. > > Regards, > > Herb Sitz > Seattle, WA > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
