I use two monitors with a detachable window for the vr pane on the second monitor when WYSIWYG is important.
Chris On Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 10:49:05 AM UTC-8, Kent Tenney wrote: > > Once again, surprised by existing capability of Leo. > > Re: 2015: somehow digest and present in a coherent way, all the > stuff that's already available, which only a few are taking advantage of. > > I think a floating window like stickynotes would be good for 'live' > coding. > I often use 'add-editor' to be able to see the code I'm writing a test for > ... > so if a render pane is added, I've only got 1/3 editor width. > > This discussion has made me realize I should switch to > stickynotes for the alternate view instead of add-editor ... > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 10:36 AM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor > <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 07:37:01 -0600 > > "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > > >> In any case, new code will be required to capture and render the > >> output of execute-script, regardless of where the rendering winds up. > > > > Unless you just use vs-eval :-) > > > > It executes the selected text, shows the output in the log pane, then > > selects the next line. So for this code: > > > > a = 2 > > b = 3 > > c_ = 4 > > print c_ > > print c_+2 > > d = a+b > > > > if you select-all vs-eval the log pane shows > > > > 4 > > 6 > > 5 > > > > one output for each print and one output for the last assignment. > > > > If instead of select all you just place the cursor at the start of the > > first line and repeatedly vs-eval, the output in the log pane is > > > > 2, 3, 4, 4, 6, 5 (on separate lines) > > > > vs-eval doesn't understand multi line code one line at a time, you have > > to select a valid block (the whole def or for) and execute it all at > > once. > > > > And at any point you can insert the last result into the body with > > vs-last or vs-last-pretty. So I can type 52*40*12.5, select it, > > ls-eval (bound to a handy key of course) and ls-last to put the answer > > in. > > > > Or there's the livecode plugin which is more interactive, and currently > > has a dependency on the `meta` module. I see live code as more of a > > toy / teaching aid, although I suppose it could be useful for > > developing fiddly things, like: > > > > import re > > x = re.compile('[123]') > > x.match("543") > > x.match("354") > > > > so as you edit the regexp the match results are updated in real time > > allowing you to know when you have the effect you want. That's how > > everyone writes regexp, right, just keep changing it randomly until it > > works? :-) > > > > So yes, Leo can have more ways of executing code, but it already has > > four: > > > > - execute-script / @button, which can bind results anywhere it wants, > > including p.insertAsLastChild().b = repr(result) > > > > Maybe this last would be better as > > > > def log(self, result): > > nd = self.insertAsLastChild() > > nd.h = time.strftime('%H:%M:%S %b %d %Y, %a') > > nd.b = repr(result) > > ... > > p.log(result) > > > > - vs-eval > > > > - the rest of the valuespace plugin machinery, which is quite > > abstract but I suspect quite powerful in terms of its whole-tree > > integration > > > > - live code > > > > Cheers -Terry > > > > -- > > 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] <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > > 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.
