On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Edward K. Ream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Kent Tenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > At present, a script button converts a non-shadowed file to a shadowed >> > file. We could make the process of shadowing files more automatic. >> > For example, @shadow-thin and @shadow-file might create shadowed >> > private files in @thin or @file formats respectively. >> >> Sort of like the freedesktop thumbnails standard. >> http://people.freedesktop.org/~vuntz/thumbnail-spec-cache/index.html >> http://people.freedesktop.org/~vuntz/thumbnail-spec-cache/thumbsave.html >> >> When an image file is opened (by compliant apps), a file is created >> in the ~/.thumbnails tree. This convention of using 'companion' files >> has been proven to be very effective. > > Something like that. The details are different: > > 1. We have a place to put private shadow files: in the leo-shadow directory > of whatever directory contains the public file. > > 2. We needn't hash the file name: we can munge the name of the private file > in a more readable way. > > But indeed, the idea is essentially the same: associating a "helper" file > with a "main" file.
The .bzr or .svn trees would be a closer moral equivalent to a .leo shadow tree. I had never looked at the contents of .bzr/* before, looks like they also use hashes for filenames. > > Edward > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
