On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 6:20 PM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor < [email protected]> wrote:
Might be worth a look at the backlinks plug-in, which provides a mechanism > and gui for superimposing a general graph on the tree. Graphcanvas plug-in > is just another gui for the same mechanism. > As I said in the original posting, the new scheme won't be used as a general graph. > Not entirely sure I follow the 'attribute' part vs nodes, At the implementation level, v.parents and v.children get swapped in and out depending on which attribute is in effect for the *display* of the outline. The drawing code stays the same! It doesn't know about the switcheroo. > Also long ago I did demo navigation of a cyclic graph using a tree, not sure if that's relevant. I think that's something different, because the new idea gives, in effect, a set of layers (one per attribute). Each layer contains Leo's existing tree structure. > Also recalling the sea of nodes idea that's surfaced periodically. Thanks for reminding me of this! Iirc, this was B. H.'s (LeoUser's) suggestion. At the time he made it, I had no idea what it meant. But the Aha makes it perfectly clear. Yes, the "black" threading could be called a preferred view, but it's just as valid to think of each node as being *completely independent* of all other nodes. Each node is an island in the sea. Each node can participate in arbitrarily many threadings/ trees. > Interesting direction, for sure. To repeat what I said to Kent, the question I am presently asking myself is what my work flow would be in the new scheme. In some sense, I need a prototype, but I think pencil and paper will suffice. In fact, I am considering what keystrokes/commands I would use as an alternative to Ctrl-` (clone), etc. No conclusions yet. I won't do anything until I am *sure* that the new scheme actually simplifies Leo for all users, including me. 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 https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
