The go-related concept of being "light" has greatly improved Leo. Thanks to the usual suspects, I now use Leo exactly as I previously used the lightweight editor SciTe. This is a fundamental change in my point of view. Indeed, I just changed the script that opens a file in a "flat" editor so that it opens files in Leo instead. The next step will be to assign Leo as the designated editor for Blender, IPython, etc.
The go-related concept of being "thin" is something we want to avoid in Leo :-) Being thin (usually) denotes being fragile, at the mercy of one's opponent. In games between professional players, once a player becomes thin, the game is out of his (or her) control. The opposite of "thin" is "thick". Being thick is always good. For Leo, the concept of "thin" means (to me) that Leo is not quite polished, complete or professional. This morning I realized that this concept might be as important to Leo as the concept of being light. The reason is simply that that *newbies* will be most likely to think of Leo as thin, though of course they won't use that term! We who use Leo understand that Leo is "thick", that it is useful, well-designed, and fundamentally reliable. Alas, newbies are likely to make snap judgments. Those judgments might be "erroneous", but that doesn't lessen their impact! So it is up to us, and especially me, to avoid anything that would make newbies come to the wrong conclusions about Leo. This includes: - Keeping screen shots up to date and as "wow" as possible. - Avoiding installation problems. - Avoiding problems with Leo's web site. In particular, I am going to fix the search box today :-) - Making Leo's documentation as good, "light" and clear as possible. etc. Your comments please. Anything that might look thin to a newbie? Edward P.S. The distinctions light/heavy and thick/thin, as applied to Leo, are, by far, the most useful results of way-too-many years playing go ;-) EKR -- 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.
