On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:56 PM, gf <[email protected]> wrote: > My sincere thanks to Edward and all those involved in making v4.11 *much* > more approachable and user friendly than any previous version of Leo. >
You're welcome. > > I have one suggestion: since many people are example- or template-driven > in their use of software, include an 'Examples' directory under the Help > menu. This menu could contain a limited set of simple examples of common > tasks for Leo users, such as a > > to-do list, a simple script template, and a documentation project in rst. > When clicking on an item in this menu, the corresponding Leo outline would > appear in the editor. These examples would be well documented and could be > 'Save As...' starting points for new user projects. > I like the idea. I'm not sure the best way to do it. There are several possibilities. 1. New entries in the help menu, as you suggest. Note that the cheat sheet may do quite a bit of what you want. 2. Put examples in a default workbook file. By analogy with this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/leo-editor/+bug/555014Leo could create a default workbook if it does not exist. This would be the place to put templates, tutorials, etc. I think Leo should do this asap, regardless of other ways of presenting templates. Note that vim and Emacs do something similar. For vim in particular, opening the tutorial by default is essential: newbies to vim couldn't even quit without help from the tutorial! (except by killing the process). 3. Add standard abbreviations that expand to templates. In particular, rst;; could expand to an @rst tree with typical defaults, ready for the rst3 command. I'm not sure whether any kind of "template" for scripts exists. I think the cheat sheet probably suffices. Feel free to suggest improvements there. Any other suggestions? 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
