VOom (Vim Outliner of Markups) is a very useful outline plugin for Vim. It can support many markup modes, such as popular markdown, latex, pandoc, html and python. For me,
- markdown - used to write notes, and it can be easily converted into html or pdf by markdown2.py, pandoc or Mou, then paste html to blog
- latex - used to write research paper
Typical Usage of VOom
- Use Vim to open Latex file
- Type
:Voom latex
to open VOom outline window in left panel
- Use the section tree in VOom for jumping to desired section of paper
The Problems
However sometimes I have to open up to ten Latex files for editing at the same time, I need typing
:Voom latex
for ten times. It's not productive and boring.
Solution
Vim has an
autocmd
feature to open a command automatically depending on the events. More detials see vimdoc (
:help autocmd
).