On May 8, 11:58 pm, "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. Some people will object to Leo sentinels > no matter how well hidden they are.
When I started using leo for coding and was storing the outline in version control, I was taking leo sentinels in diffs as "garbage". This might sound like blasphemy, but this is how I was feeling about sentinels. A way to mitigate the effect of sentinels is to colorize the canonical diff in a way that just hides the sentinels at all, by displaying them with the same color as the background. But... do you notice how I stated it? I said "mitigation", implying that sentinels are something bad. I wouldn't risk to generalize, but I think personally for me such attitude is a kind of psychological barrier. Oh well, at least it was. Nowadays I tend to treat sentinels as a trade-off. They make the diffs a bit uglier, they make the codebase a bit bigger, but they add another dimension, by providing a structure, a hierarchy which flat text files lack. I think it is a fair trade-off. More than that - it's a profitable trade-off. If flat text files can be seen as middle-age "scrolls", sentinels are something that transform them into "books". I'm going to spice up my post a bit, by adding a link to a hilarious short movie that everybody have probably seen already. I think it perfectly illustrates the human attitude towards something that's new and yet unusual. I think it applies to leo sentinels as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cd7Bsp3dDo -- 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.
