On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net > wrote:
> In that regard, Leo is barely mentioned on WikiPedia - it has a simple > descriptive page, but on the list of text editors it's listed, but there's > no information about o/s support or features. > I need some help here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_%28text_editor%29 QQQ The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page. (August 2013) QQQ As I have been review this thread today, I have been copying interesting comments from it. Several might be the basis of improvements to the wikipedia article. For marketing, packaging, features, documentation, tutorials, > extensions,... - do a side by side comparison of Vim and Leo - and the > answer(s) to "why leo isn't more popular" leap out at you. The answer is not so clear cut. Consider the first item returned by Google for the search "emacs tutorial": http://www2.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/tcl-course/emacs-tutorial.html This is hardly a breathtaking introduction to emacs. It would not *by itself* convert people to emacs. It doesn't even highlight what I consider the most important Aha about emacs, namely that you don't have to remember (or type) commands with long names! No, the reason emacs is popular is that it continues to be taught as *the* programming editor to generations of computer-programming students. The students learn *from each other*, using a tedious "tutorial" as a reference. They learn from looking over each other's shoulders. Leo would be just as popular, imo, if thousands of college students learned Leo from each other. This does not excuse lack of further work on Leo tutorials, but this *is* the essence of the situation, imo. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
