I started in basic Vim and migrated to using the Vimoutliner plugin, especially for non-code text. Orgmode is a hell of a lot more fully featured than Vimoutli

I started in basic Vim and migrated to using the Vimoutliner plugin, especially for non-code text. Orgmode is a hell of a lot more fully featured than Vimoutliner, has a much larger user base, and a much more active development team. I'm able to stomach Emacs by using the Viper and Vimpulse plugins that emulate a nice subset of Vim keybindings, but it still doesn't feel as good. If you need the extra features of Orgmode it's well worth it, though. Still, Vimoutliner probably has Orgmode beat when you consider just the outliner functionality (but of course Orgmode offers much more than that). Lately I've been witing LaTeX documents using the Vim Latex-Suite plugin. What I really should do is configure Orgmode to work with my LaTeX preamble and/or revise the LatexSuite so its outlining works more like Vimoutliner. Either way you can't lose.