On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 09:39:33 -0500 Kent Tenney <[email protected]> wrote:
> from active_path About > "If a node is named @path <path_to_folder> , the content (file and > folder names) of the folder and the children of that node will > synchronized whenever you double-click the node's status-iconbox." > > I'm not seeing this currently, I'm using 'set to absolute recursive', > which prepends > @auto and provides fully qualified path, then doing 'Refresh from > disk' > > I seem to remember different behaviour ... Coincidentally I've just pinned down 8e35e492a3c1367d8441cb15b0468bfc78033580 as the rev. breaking double-click, probably not hard to fix, possibly just a re-naming. Cheers -Terry > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:12 AM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 07:01:17 -0700 (PDT) > > [email protected] wrote: > > > >> (I hope you don't mind that fact that I am resuscitating a 4-year > >> old thread.) > >> > >> I was going to write a post exactly like the OP of this thread, > >> when I discovered that this question had already been asked in this > >> thread, so here I am jumping in. > >> > >> Basically, I have precisely the same needs as the OP: organizing > >> the files in my digital library (text, pdf, doc, pics, anything) > >> and make them accessible through Leo, which would allow me to have > >> clones and hence multiple data views. After this, Leo would be > >> about the only way for me to access those files. > > > > I wonder how close you'd get with active_path.py, if you use its > > "recursively make paths absolute" to allow them to be moved around > > freely... no, that's not doing quite the right thing. > > > > Hmm, I think there are a bunch of things Leo does which are close to > > what you're looking for but nothing that quite fits. > > > > Cheers -Terry > > > >> Initially I was thinking of using Leo for tagging, but it seems > >> that Leo does not support tagging yet (too bad!). > >> So I am asking you advice on how I could go about it. > >> > >> Since I am looking forward to a Leo-only solution, I am not > >> planning to resort to any external program (unlike the OP). > >> > >> Could someone please give me some directions on how to have Leo > >> make an outline containing the listing of whole directories (along > >> with their subdirectories), so that each node is a file? Creating > >> @url nodes would only be the first step, because next I would want > >> to create views which allow me to group and display various files > >> together, from across different directories. This functionality is > >> commonly called "virtual folders" on some systems. Basically, each > >> such folder would be the equivalent of a listing of all the files > >> that are tagged with a given keyword. Can I do all this in Leo, > >> despite the fact that Leo does not have proper tagging? > >> Could I also have virtual folders on demand (i.e. by user input, > >> not pre-defined) which give me the listing of files that are > >> shared by two or more directories? (This would be equivalent to > >> narrowing down the search by specifying more than one tag). > >> > >> Lastly, can I arrange such virtual folders in a hierarchy? > >> > >> Any advice or comment is gladly welcome, especially from those who > >> have already done something similar. > >> > >> dufriz > >> > > > > -- > > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
