Thanks for the import-tabbed-files. One use for this is for Ecconistas
looking to move to Leo. As a first step, it's easy to copy-paste an
Ecco outline into a text file, which will have tabs. (This doesn't
apply to other features of Ecco documents, such as folders and columns,
but it's a start.)
Don
On 10/6/16 9:59 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote:
This work completes the recent work re importing tabbed files. There
was a cascade of work involved:
1. Leo now sports a new import-tabbed-files command. It prompts for
one or more files that use tabs (or blanks) to specify outline
structure. It imports lines from the files as children of a single node.
2. The File menu used to contain just an "Import Files..." command.
This has now been demoted to an "Import..." submenu, containing
several other commands.
The import-files command can still be used on (almost?) any kind of
file, but imo it's important to add the other import commands to the
menu as advertizing. Otherwise, it's hard to know, *from the menu*,
that Leo can import FreeMind, MindMap, MORE and tab-delimited files,
as well as Zim folders, whatever they are ;-)
Yes, <Alt-X>import-<tab> will show you all the available import
commands, but newbies may not know that.
Yes, this increases the number of visible commands in the various
menus, but I think the new submenu hides enough detail. In fact, the
new submenu seems more standard and clearer. YMMV, but you aren't
going to change my mind.
3. I added the import-MORE-files command and improved/corrected its
logic. It now handles MORE-like file whose outline structure is
indicated by leading *blanks* as well as tabs, as in the original MORE
file format. Sure, nobody is likely ever to use this code, but I
wanted to test it...
4. leo.core.leoImport now contains a TabImporter class, used by the
import-tabbed-files command. Scripts can use it as well. The @button
import-tab-files node in scripts.leo could now be simplified as follows:
separate = True # True: put all lines in separate nodes.
path = r'c:/test/tab_file_test.txt'
import leo.core.leoImport as leoImport
importer = leoImport.TabImporter(c, separate=separate)
importer.import_files([path])
In fact, however, the @button node in scripts.leo contains the old
code as well...
Edward
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