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Posted by Gorski
Dec 20, 2006 at 05:12 PM

Since this is an outliner site I’m obligated to mention Vim, http://www.vim.org/, in this thread.

I’ve been using UltraEdit for years but recently began learning Vim. I need to do more and more on Linux these days and feel helpless without a good text editor there. Vim, which is free, runs on Windows and Linux, and I’ve begun using it instead of UltraEdit.

Vim is extremely powerful but difficult to learn. If you want to live in a text-only world, however, it’d be a worthwhile tool to master because there are many handy features - from split screens/tabs to plug ins that will launch links (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=293) to support for plain-text formats like Markdown (http://plasticboy.com/markdown-vim-mode/).

And it has an outliner: the Vim Outliner, http://www.vimoutliner.org/, which supports folding, hoisting and other standard outlining features. It says at http://freshmeat.net/projects/vimoutliner/ that its features are comparable to “MaxThink, Grandview, ThinkTank, and more” but I haven’t used those so can’t say myself.