On Sep 29, 9:57 am, Terry Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Terry, please let me know if this change seems dubious to you.
>
> Now selecting the About docs. for multiple plugins creates multiple
> panes, whereas before the same pane was reused.  Preference kind of
> thing, I don't think it's that big a deal, although if you were
> browsing plugin docs the new behavior could be annoying.

Interesting.  There is a relationship here with mouseless
programming.  It would seem that all visual elements, especially those
that may exist in multiple versions, must have a name or other
description suitable for generalized commands.

At present, the most serious hole in Leo's commands is that there is
no way to close or select a tab in the qttabs gui that represents an
entire file: afaik, you have to use the mouse to change files.  By
extension, the user might want multiple rendering panes, especially if
one or more are locked.  Without a description, there is no way to
specify exactly what show/hide-rendering pane does.

I haven't forgotten the autocompleter docs.  I'll get to them next.
It looks like autocompletion would be the way to generalize the not-
very-effect commands that switch focus from one ui element to
another.  A related benefit is one generalized command might be more
convenient to use than the present flavors of (buggy) cycle-focus
commands.

In short, contemplating generalized windows leads us to generalized
select/delete/show/hide commands, based on autocompletion, that work
on various ui elements.  This looks like the next project.

Edward

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