whew! took me 2 hours to catch up on the conversations tonight, and
I've only not been paying attention for a few days. One aspect of
'light' not mentioned yet, is that it's presence encourages and spurs
growth. I think I can confidently say we're seeing some of that right
now. :)
I look forward to trying out "leo x.y" as soon as I get to a machine
with bzr on it. Only for me it won't be from typing in a console but
2x-clicking or [enter]ing on a file in Windows Explorer. (After the
below in an admin command shell, for those who want a quick recipe)
{{{
B:\> ftype Python.File
Python.File="C:\Python27\python.exe" "%1" %*
B:\> ftype Python.File="C:\bin\leo.bat" "%1" %*
B:\> ftype Python.File
Python.File="C:\bin\leo.bat" "%1" %*
}}}
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By far and away my most favourite feature of Win7 is in actual fact a
very small improvement, that could likely have been added to any
version of Windows in the last decade: [winkey]+[cursor-key] and
[winkey]+[shift]+[cursor-key] (net search:Areo Snap). It's done more
to make Windows light, and me feel productive, than any other thing I
can think of in the last year or two.
I can imagine something similar for moving Leo panels around.
Sometimes having the outline tree in the primary locus position just
adds noise, when all I want to do is focus on the body pane, but
grabbing the mouse and resizing the panes is too much fuss. Or maybe I
want the [Nav] pane front and centre.
Speaking of which, this month, I lost my all time favourite program
launcher: Google Desktop Search has been deprecated. I'm addicted to
it's double-[ctrl] launching of programs and recent/often opened
files. Instead of
{{{
[ctrl], [ctrl] # faster and easier than a chord, e.g. [alt]-[ctrl]
apt-[tab] # "apt-dev.leo" is filled in; could have typed "-dev" too.
[enter]
}}}
I now have to
{{{
[winkey] # wait a moment or so
leo # wait a moment; must start from beginning, "eo" won't work.
[alt]-[f]
[f]
0...9 # select number corresponding to "apt-dev.leo"
}}}
I wish I had a screencast to point you to. Text just fails to capture
the essence and fluidity of it. In any case, the reason I bring it up
is I've been thinking the model would be interesting to have in leo:
double tap [ctrl] (or whatever), a text field pops in centre of window
(instantly), type a few characters and all the node headlines
containing that character sequence are shown for, tab completion.
[enter] then navigates to that node. Actually come to think of it,
it's just the already existing [Nav] pane made more accessible (and
tweaked to find-as-I-type).
One of the interesting aspects of the GDS quick launch was that it
could be used for executing commands (like calculating arithmetic)
*and* launching programs *and* locating documents. So I guess in Leo
it might be the minibuffer and the nav pane and auto completion all in
one interface. ...it may not make sense to have the 3 combined, I
admit that I don't see a use case for that at the moment. However each
of these modes or commands have similar behaviour -- get keyboard
focus, accept typed characters, do something with them -- but they are
spread out all over. One is at the bottom of the window, one at upper
right (but hidden until focused), and the other wherever the cursor is
before being initiated. What if they were always in the same place:
dead centre ?
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-matt
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