Wow, I was just thinking today how useful it would be to have a @button to copy nodes like this, and PRESTO, it exists! :D
On Aug 11, 6:41 pm, Terry Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's the docstring for the quickMove updated plugin. Really it supported > bookmarks and tags before, but now it has the `Set Parent` functionality to > make its buttons into sub-menu items, which makes using it with large numbers > of bookmarks/tags more practical. > > Create buttons to quickly move nodes to other nodes > > Quickly move/copy/clone nodes from around the tree to one or more target > nodes. It can also create > bookmark and tagging functionality in an outline (see `Set Parent Notes`_ > below). > > Adds `Move/Clone/Copy To Last Child Button` and `Move/Clone/Copy To First > Child > Button`, `Link To/From` and `Jump To` commands to the Move sub-menu on the > Outline menu, and each node's context menu, if the `contextmenu` plugin is > enabled. > > Select a node ``Foo`` and then use the `Move To Last Child Button` command. > This adds a 'to Foo' button to the button bar. Now select another node and > click > the 'to Foo' button. The selected node will be moved to the last child > of the node 'Foo'. > > `To First Child Button` works the same way, except that moved nodes are > inserted > as the first child of the target node. > > `Clone` and `Copy` variants are like `Move`, but clone or copy instead of > moving. > > `Link` works in conjunction with the `backlink` plugin (and also the > `graphcanvas` plugin) creating a link to/from the target and current nodes. > > `Jump` buttons act as bookmarks, taking you to the target node. > > You can right click on any of these buttons to access their context menu: > > Goto Target > takes you to the target node (like a `Jump` button). > Make Permanent > makes the button permanent, it will reappear > when the file is saved / closed / re-opened. > Set Parent > allows you to move buttons to sub-menu items of other > `quickMove` buttons. This implicitly makes the moved button > permanent. It also causes the moved button to lose its context menu. > Remove Button > comes from the `mod_scripting` plugin, and just > removes the button for the rest of the current session. > > Set Parent Notes > ---------------- > > `Set Parent` doesn't allow you to do anything with `quickMove` you couldn't > do with a long strip of separate buttons, but it collects quickMove buttons > as sub-menu items of one quickMove button, saving a lot of toolbar space. > > Bookmarks > Create somewhere out of the way in your outline a node called > `Bookmarks`. Use the quickMove menu to make it a `Jump To` button, and use > its > context menu to make it permanent. There is no particular reason to jump to > it, but it needs to be a `quickMove` button of some kind. > > Now, when you want to bookmark a node, first use the quickMove menu to make > the node a `Jump To` button, and then use the context menu on the button to > set its parent to your `Bookmarks` button. It becomes a sub-menu item > of the `Bookmarks` button. > > Tags > In conjunction with the `backlinks` plugin you can use `quickMove` to > tag nodes. The `backlinks` plugin adds a `Links` tab to the `Log pane`. > > Create somewhere in your outline a node called `Tags`. Use the quickMove > menu > to make it a `Jump To` button, and use its context menu to make it > permanent. > Clicking on it will jump you to your tag list. Now create a node under the > `Tags` node for each tag you want. The node's name will be the tag name, and > can be changed later. Then use the quickMove menu to make each of these > nodes > a `Link To` button, and then use the context menu on the button to set its > parent to your `Tags` button. It becomes a sub-menu item of the `Tags` > button. > > To see the tags on a node, you need to be looking at the `Links` tab in the > `Log pane`. To see all the nodes with a particular tag, click on the `Tags` > button to jump to the tag list, and select the node which names the tag of > interest. The nodes with that tag will be listed in th `Links` tab in the > `Log pane`. -- 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.
