On Mar 22, 6:40 am, "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Terry Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > But I do think an infrastructure which allows the user to easily add > > multiple panes for different *simultaneous* views will push Leo even > > further forward even faster. > > If I were designing Leo from scratch today, I would certainly pay more > attention to this. The flexibility of Emacs and Eclipse in this > regard is appealing. It does seem too difficult to add new panes. > > However, I think the analogy with Emacs and Eclipse is more than > slightly misleading. Leo views (outline and body pane, especially) > are tightly coupled. Multiple body editors are tricky for this > reason. In fact, there may be bugs here: what happens when a body > editor becomes invalid because its node has been deleted?
On second thought, this whole response is too pessimistic. I am going to start a new thread called "The design of Leo window manager". Stay tuned. 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.
