On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 14:18:23 -0700 (PDT) Largo84 <larg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm really glad the docs are being updated. I know that's a > monumental task. I only use a fraction of Leo's commands, mostly > because I don't even know what they're supposed to accomplish. A few > examples: > > 1) There are seven 'Rectangle' commands. Running help-for-command I know you want the docs. to be more complete, not just answers for your questions, but putting this text in Leo: > I'm really glad the docs are being updated. I know that's a > monumental task. I only use a fraction of Leo's commands, mostly > because I don't even know what they're supposed to accomplish. A few > examples: Placing the cursor immediately before the first "I", holding shift and moving it to immediately before the word "examples" selects a zero width rectangle from the beginning to the end of the selection (zero width because the selection starts and ends in the same column. Then running rectangle-string "[largo]<space><enter>" yields: > [largo] I'm really glad the docs are being updated. I know that's a > [largo] monumental task. I only use a fraction of Leo's commands, mostly > [largo] because I don't even know what they're supposed to accomplish. A few > [largo] examples: i.e. the insertion of a rectangle of text. Basically emulates the Emacs commands: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Rectangles.html > Tangle all @root nodes in the selected outline. Knuth's literate programming which combines detailed narrative documentation of the code with the code itself uses all kinds of "tangle" and "weave" related terms to refer to the process of producing code from the combined texts, or docs., etc. I'm not really sure that literate programming has much hold these days, even though it inspired Leo initially. It was good for languages like TeX that are hard to read quickly, but modern languages can be fairly easy to read, if you pick good variable names etc., and if properly structured can usually be sufficiently documented with the languages own features (docstrings) and systems like Sphinx. (Any or all of this could be wrong, but I think it was Knuth and this is what it's about). That said http://yihui.name/knitr/ is basically literate programming for R, and very useful for documenting analysis to make it repeatable. 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 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/d/optout.
