On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:02 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> After installing Leo5.0-b2 on my Windows 8 machine I was just playing > around with 'quickstart.leo'. > Here are just two remarks after following the tutorial for only five > minutes: > > The way this tutorial is structured (with '@path ~'), the examples clutter > my home directory with files I don't want to have there. > This will only happen if you actually create the files by changing one of the @@<file> nodes to a "live" @file node. > (I'm sure other users don't want to have these files there, either.) > Do I have to clean up everything manually? > If you created the file, it's up to you to deal with it. Perhaps the @path node is confusing, but you have to put files *somewhere*, and your home directory seems the safest place. After following the first explanation > > Remove the first @ from @thin in the subtree below and save >> >> (ctrl+s) to create an **external file** which is directly >> >> usable outside leo. Try opening the resulting myfile.py in a >> >> normal text editor (e.g. from right-click menu on the @thin >> >> node) to see what it looks like. >> >> > After choosing 'Edit myfile_thin.py in notepad', I got the following: > > > <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-vHbA4vXZBEQ/VGzoHe8L83I/AAAAAAAAAEI/fFgcg7KdlPw/s1600/myfile_thin_in_editor.png> > > Just one long line of commands without proper line breaks... > I know, including 'quickstart.leo' is menat well. > But this doesn't instill trust... > It's notepad that you shouldn't trust. Try using an editor that can handle linux line breaks intelligently. I recommend scite: http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html You'll never use notepad again :-) 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/d/optout.
