Hi Viktor, A great simplification of Leo would still leave it feature rich for a writer. I have often wondered if that would crack that market for Leo.
As Twain said though, I wrote a long letter as I didn't have time to write a short one. Chris On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Viktor Ransmayr <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Chris, > > I think the proposal made can fully support your criterias, which I fully > support. > > Both Visual Studio Code & Atom are available on Linux & do not require > Internet Access. - So far they only miss Outlines with clones - but - they > offer a lot of 'infrastructure', which Leo as an environment will (most > likely) never get ... > > I think it is interesting to discuss what would be needed to create a "Leo > experience" in another environment. > > With kind regards, > > Viktor > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Chris George <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I had three criteria drive me to Leo, and nothing has changed in half a >> decade or more. >> >> 1. Linux support and not as an afterthought. >> 2. Offline support, simply because the requirement of the Internet is a >> brittle requirement that relies on a lot of things going right for a lot of >> people every day. >> 3. Outliner with clones. I can find 5 or 6 that have this that are >> online. But Leo is the only one that doesn't require being online. >> >> Given that I haven't run a Microsoft operating system since 2001 on my >> personal computer, step one, which is to chain Leo to a single OS/App >> pairing, I have no interest. But then IANAP, I am a writer and that is what >> I use Leo for. >> >> Chris >> >> On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 6:35 AM, Viktor Ransmayr < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >> >> -- >> 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. 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