I've just begun browsing the wiki, and came across this (I've seen it elsewhere as well)
> A *dangerous* delete is a deletion of a node so that all the data in the node is deleted *everywhere* in an outline. The data is gone, to be retrieved only via undo or via backups. It may not be obvious which deletes are dangerous in an outline containing clones. Happily, there is a very simple rule of thumb: > Deleting a non-cloned node is *always* dangerous. > Deleting a cloned node is *never* dangerous. A side benefit of the SOP I outlined is preventing accidental "dangerous" deletions - all important content is already cloned as of creation time. Actually deleting the last instance of a node requires an extra step, and a somewhat inconvenient one at that, and in fact the only reason I can think to do so is to save disk space, which I think unlikely to be a real issue for most. ---------------------------------------- Side note - the Wiki contains quite a bit of outdated information. I'd be happy to volunteer to clean it up in those areas I'm au fait with, but as of yet have no idea what terms like @root, tangling etc might mean in the context of the current version. I could post for clarifications here in order to do so, but fear I've stepped over the verbosity edge, I reckon a few of you probably feel I'm already hogging bandwidth on the list. If there is someone who has some level of "ownership" over or at least interest in the wiki's content who would be willing to exchange say one daily email from me with a specific question or two, I'll take it on as a project to get the wiki up to date best I can. Of course it might just be more efficient for someone more knowledgeable than me to just go through and clean it up herself, whatever works. . . If not, I'd question the rationale behind having it at all, as there seems to be a reasonable amount of decent docs on the website and the .leo files, and at least they have "owners" who try to keep them current. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/leo-editor/-/vqCzgyo7S5sJ. 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.
