On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 9:38 AM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 15:51:23 +0300 > "Ville M. Vainio" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ville's still around, good to know ;-) > Yes. Thanks for your comments. > > > 2. .ini or .json based configuration (instead of .leo format), again > > like in Sublime Text or VSCode. Current system requires too much Leo > > buy-in already > > As it happens I have some almost ready to test code to make Leo > settings editing easier. It does what we've discussed before, provides > a plain text multi-level menu to locate settings, then handles copying > them from leoSettings.leo to myLeoSettings.leo etc. > > I can't see how editing .json (in what?) is easier than editing Leo > outlines in Leo. .ini might be more familiar, but it feels like a cop > out to say Leo's great at managing hierarchical information, but you > have to use .ini files for this relatively simple case. > I agree. We want to have reasonable defaults so people can use Leo "out of the box", but after that, the leoSettings files should be easier to use than flat files. > > > 3. See if we could make tabs for node editors (richt click on node -> > > open as tab). This is in line with how people use e.g. browsers these > > days. Like "stickynote" but for tabs, that is > > +10 on this, I've been saying for years we want body panes to be well > behaved QWidgets we can stick anywhere. Now that I finally have the > settings editor helper menu almost done, perhaps this will be my next > focus. It's not really the "stick anywhere" part, it's the handling of > multiple body editors that could be expanded. > The code for multiple body editors is too complex at present, so any improvement would be welcome. The design question is, "does a body editor track changes in the outline. At present, the body editor with focus always tracks the outline, but that might well be an unnecessary (and too complex) choice. > 4. see if we could replace minibuffer with ctrl+shift+p like thing > > from sublime/atom/vscode. Much more "impressive" and modern. > > Probably need more info. beyond the different key binding here ;-) > I too do not understand this. 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.
