My excitement about Leo has only increased since this post: http://longrun.zwiki.org/LeoLog
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Ville M. Vainio<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Edward K. Ream <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Inspired by Terry's recent post, I'm wondering how many of you can >> tell the story of what you were doing and thinking when you first >> "got" what Leo was all about. Such stories might help newbies, and >> they will help me understand the pathways people take to understanding >> Leo. > > My "story": > > - I bumped into leo 5 years back. This tutorial sparked my fascination: > > http://www.3dtree.com/ev/e/sbooks/leo/sbframetoc_ie.htm > > (yeah, they are not really up-to-date anymore. The best tutorial is > probably the "Outlining" one, with Friends, Enemies and People that > owe me money) > > I played around with it a bit, but found myself unable to use it for > programming (the @root thing is not all that practical). Also, back > then Leo was too slow for large projects (we've come a long way > since). Still, a weird "charm" about the whole thing stuck to the back > of my head. > > Here are some of my c.l.p postings from 2004: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-July/270849.html > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-July/270910.html > > I guess I found myself not needing Leo that much back then - my job > was boring at the time, and I didn't have all that much to keep track > off. > > Later, a colleague introduced me to Freemind (and my job had got > interesting enough to actually keep track of what i'm doing). I used > that for a while to keep notes about my defect fixing work (with chat > logs, tracebacks, interesting functions etc. associated with each > defect). > > However, I soon hit the glass ceiling with Freemind - it just didn't > scale for lots of text and complex graphs. It was more of an > attractive toy, really. I then remembered Leo, and switched to using > that. Leo was a much better fit for my needs. > > This was coupled with Edwards post to ipython mailing list: > > http://osdir.com/ml/python.ipython.devel/2005-07/msg00015.html > > This resulted in ILeo, which solved some of the woes of using %edit in > IPython, and revealed a whole new avenue of thinking about interactive > programming. > > I got seriously sucked into development of Leo itself when the Qt ui > started happening. I had a very selfish motive for promoting the Qt ui > stuff - I had started working on Linux at the time (on the maemo/Nokia > N900 stuff I posted the link about), and the Tk ui was bad enough on > Linux that I either had to reimplement a Leo-like program myself > (possibly based on qleolite, branch still on LP), or wait for other > GUI plugin to emerge. But here we are. > > -- > Ville M. Vainio > http://tinyurl.com/vainio > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
