On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:55:04 -0700
Chris George <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Terry,
> 
> Almost. That plus the ability to be writing along and hit Ctrl-b s u d d e
> n l y Ctrl-b and continue on.

Which boils down to Ctrl-b inserting '*' if there's no selection?

Cheers -Terry

> I had Leo working to the extent that I could type suddenly Ctrl-Alt-b and
> have it retroactively add the markup but it was simply too much of a leap
> to change my work habits. Body memory takes years to develop and is not
> trivial to attempt to change.
> 
> A set of keybindings that mimic the standard word processing key bindings
> that then markup the text using RST or Markdown would be a huge step
> forward for me in using Leo. Right now I try to find time to fiddle and
> play with it, but that has been going on for almost two years now and I
> have yet to commit to any serious work in Leo.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Terry Brown <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:31:25 -0700
> > Chris George <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > I need basic text formatting at the standard hot key level. ie. Ctrl-B
> > for
> > > bold, Ctrl-I for italic etc. while in the edit window.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > I don't
> > > need WSIWYG, RST markup works fine as it gives me lots of output options.
> >
> > So Leo has support for CKEditor http://ckeditor.com/demo build in now,
> > although there are probably key binding conflicts for some of the keys
> > you mention.
> >
> > But I'm wondering if wondering if what you're saying, if you're ok
> > using RST, is that you want to editing text and have
> >
> >    ...then, suddenly, the...
> >
> > highlight 'suddenly', hit Ctrl-B, and have it become
> >
> >    ...then, *suddenly*, the...
> >
> > i.e. RST markup for "bold".  Is that the goal?
> >
> > Cheers -Terry
> >
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