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VimOrganizer version 0.30, November 2, 2011. Requires Vim version that
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is compiled with support for folding and tabs. Conceal will
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be taken advantage of if working with Vim73 supporting conceal.
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(Also, I STRONGLY suggest that you apply a patch to Vim so that
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folded headings can have level-dependent highlighting,
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patch for Vim73 is in contrib directory of the download. If you're on
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Windows contact me and I should be able to provide you with an
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executable. If I hadn't been able to make Vim do this I would have
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bitten the bullet and moved to Emacs, as much as I hate editing in Emacs.)
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VimOrganizer is a Vim filetype plugin that attempts to clone Emacs' Org-mode.
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It is currently (November 2011) in an alpha-stage, both in terms of (1) the
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breadth and depth of Org-mode features it clones and (2) the stability of its
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operation. It is nevertheless very usable.
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Some of the ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS since previous (December 2010) version:
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-- Adjusts to any colorscheme
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-- Org menu in gvim.
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-- "Dashboards" to assist with Date entry, Columns, Tables,
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Agenda searches, and exporting.
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-- VimOrganizer help file to install in Vim.
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-- Better compatibility with Org-mode files. Open, edit, and save same
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files in Org-mode and/or VimOrganizer with (some) of the functionality and
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configuration-specific options of Org-mode supported in VimOrganizer.
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-- Support for Org-mode style links (as well as use of 'Conceal' in Vim73
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to hide link brackets and
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descriptions)
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-- Easy to use Org-like column mode, including column headings,
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inherited columns, support for Org column blocks, and ability to
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specify a list of custom column specs to apply in any buffer.
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-- Org-like narrowing of code blocks and subtrees
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-- Support for Org-like specifications of TODOS, tags, dates,
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including support for Org-compatible config lines in a file.
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-- Support for Org-like CATEGORIES, both in specification and in
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their inherited behavior.
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-- Search specification in Agenda searches is now nearly identical
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to specification of searches in Org-mode.
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-- User can specify list of commonly used custom agenda searches.
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-- Clockin, clockout, and (when a running Emacs server is available,
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clocktable block creation and updates.
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-- Org-like "refiling"
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-- Easy creation and editing of tables, as well as (when a running Emacs
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server is available) manipulation and evaluation of tables, including
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all spreadsheet functionality in Org-mode.
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-- "Live" block evaluation (when a running Emacs server is available)
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-- Support for nearly all the export types and export options
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available in Org-mode (when running Emacs server is available)
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-- Call out to an Emacs server to do "tangling" (literate programming).
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-- Many bug fixes and small improvements
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Org-mode, and thus VimOrganizer, is a text-editor plugin/application that can
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be used for (1) keeping notes, (2) maintaining TODO lists, (3) planning
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projects, and/or (4) authoring and publishing documents, including support for
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literate programming and "reproducible research". Like Org-mode, VimOrganizer
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does this by implementing a flexible plain-text system with a lightly
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structured document format. Org-mode has been in constant development for
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seven or eight years, and continues to be developed. Work on VimOrganizer is
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likewise ongoing, but VimOrganizer is at present a smaller and less ambitious
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project than Org-mode.
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File formats and basic workflows for VimOrganizer and Org-mode are very
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similar (files auto-convert as part of loading process) and VimOrganizer
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actually calls out to an Emacs' Org-mode server to
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implement important features, e.g., exporting to pdf format for printing.
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Thus, to make full use of VimOrganizer you will want to have an Emacs'
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server running alongside. In most cases this requires little knowledge of
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Emacs other than how to start it up and add a few lines to the '.emacs' file,
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Emacs' counterpart to Vim's '.vimrc'. (You can even edit the .emacs file in
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Vim.) VimOrganizer is focused on leveraging Org-mode by accessing it via
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an Emacs server, and re-implementing in Vim only what is necessary and makes
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sense.
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VimOrganizer also lets Vim users access Org-babel, a subproject of
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Org-mode that allows execution of source-code blocks in org-format
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documents. Uses for Org-babel range from writing technical research papers to
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simply using a VimOrganizer document as a "language-scratchpad". Over
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twenty languages are supported, including C, R, Lisp, Python, Perl, Ruby,
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and others. VimOrganizer calls out to a running Emacs server for Org-babel
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processing; functionality and speed are essentially the same as
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when editing with Org-mode in Emacs.
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VimOrganizer has a first draft of a Vim help file, but the best first step in
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learning about VimOrganizer is to learn about Emacs' Org-mode. VimOrganizer
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uses the same basic concepts but implements them within the context of Vim
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(and with a reduced feature set). Org-mode's main documentation and
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support newsgroup are found here:
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Org-mode Main Manual: http://orgmode.org/manual/index.html
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Org-mode Compact Guide: http://orgmode.org/guide/index.html
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Org-mode support: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode
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Org-babel information: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/
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VimOrganizer help can be found here:
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https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer/blob/master/doc/vimorg.txt
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==========================
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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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===========================
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https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer/blob/master/INSTALL.txt
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QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, SUGGESTIONS
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Questions, comments, and suggestions regarding VimOrganizer are always
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appreciated. The preferred place for those is in the VimOrganizer newsgroup
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here:
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http://groups.google.com/group/vimorganizer/topics
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VimOrganizer project files are maintained at github and the version
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there may be more recent than the files at vim.org:
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https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer
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NOTE: some code from other Vim plugins has been incorporated into the
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VimOrganizer script files. Do NOT download these plugins to use them
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with VimOrganizer; since VimOrganizer does not call out to them in any way:
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1. Charles Campbell's great calendar utilities
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2. Table editing routines from Maxim Kim's excellent vimwiki plugin.
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These are really quite nice (seem to be inspired by Org-mode's
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own table-editing stuff) and deserve to be offered as a separate
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plugin of their own, not dependent on any larger project. (If
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VimOrganizer is not quite the sort of plugin you're looking for then
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vimwiki may be.)
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----------------------------------------------------------------
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VimOrganizer page at vim.org:
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http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3342
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