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List:       centos
Subject:    Re: [CentOS] Outliner
From:       Warren Young <warren () etr-usa ! com>
Date:       2019-04-14 20:30:30
Message-ID: 78DED25E-84CF-4324-A69B-EE43C8FC1B46 () etr-usa ! com
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On Apr 14, 2019, at 4:42 AM, H <agents@meddatainc.com> wrote:
> 
> Ideally it should allow saving files in txt, OO and markdown formats…

Since you included Markdown in the list, my initial question was why don't you just \
write in that format, since the Markdown list features capture most of what I want in \
an outliner.  Then I saw in a later post that you're using an editor (Geany) without \
intelligent formatting for Markdown.

So that's my recommendation: switch to a text editor that does intelligent things \
with Markdown like continuing the list when you hit Enter from within a list item, \
adding a level to the list when you hit Tab within a list, returning to the prior \
level with a Shift-Tab, auto-indenting list items when you hit the editor's wrapping \
limits, etc.

I'm not sure what distinction you're trying to make by listing "txt" output along \
with Markdown, so I don't know what transform to suggest.

As for "OO", I assume that means OpenOffice, in which case what you actually mean is \
ODF, its file format.  And for that, I suggest that you use Pandoc, which will get \
Markdown into that format and many more:

    $ pandoc --to odt x.md > x.odt
    $ pandoc --list-output-formats

As for the actual editor, there are several choices.  The first one I reached for was \
VSCodium, which is Microsoft Visual Studio Code with the branding, telemetry and \
non-FOSS licensed stuff stripped out.  (Shades of CentOS vs RHEL…)

I'm working with a text-only CentOS VM here and couldn't get a GUI running on it — \
a problem I'll take up in a separate thread — so I'll just point you at the \
VSCodium Linux install instructions and hope they work for you there:

    https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases

Once you've got VSCodium running, you'll need to install the "Markdown All In One" \
plugin.  (Ctrl-Shift-P, install, search for Markdown, select first option [currently] \
listed.)  That will do as described above: auto-number, auto-indent, Tab/Shift-Tab to \
change indent level, etc.

The availability of such plugins is a large part of the reason Code is taking over so \
much of the programmer's text editor world.  Give it a try.

If VSCodium doesn't work on CentOS, you could try Visual Studio Code, the original \
project, which probably has better packaging:

   https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux

I used that for probably a few years before VSCodium came along.  Don't be scared by \
the branding: it shares almost nothing with Visual Studio other than branding and a \
parent organization.

If you really want a CLI-only experience, I got a suitable setup working with Vim and \
the Bullets plugin:

   https://github.com/dkarter/bullets.vim

Instead of Tab and Shift-Tab to change indent levels it uses Ctrl-T and Ctrl-D, which \
I find odd, but that's the sort of affordance you have to give up on when you're \
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