Hello community, I'd be very interested in such an experiment & would provide personal input & support.
With kind regards, Viktor Ransmayr On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 5:18 AM, 'tfer' via leo-editor < [email protected]> wrote: > There have been some discussions in the past on what we might do to make > Leo more popular. I've recently had some time out in the woods and was hit > with a tack that just might do that. > > If you do anything in the world of JavaScript you're aware of ability to > use it and nodejs frameworks to build standalone apps. In fact, there are > two popular editors that use that technology, there is Github's Atom, and > Microsoft's Visual Code. > > So here is what I'm proposing, make Leo into a plug-in for Visual Code. > We'd need to pare down Leo, dropping the Qt code and using html and > JavaScript to build a Outline pane (Note that the file browser pane works > as a tree view of directories so we can steal some code from there). There > is already support for a log, (shell). The editor pane would just have to > be hooked up to the Outline pane and set to the relevant language. It's > perfectly possible to use both JavaScript and Python in such an app. > > We would have the advantage and visibility of latching on to a popular and > growing editor, get features for free that would likely never get into Leo > and move over to what is becoming the most popular visual toolkit for > interface design, one based on Html, CSS, and JavaScript. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
