On vacation I kept thoughts about near-term plans in the background. When I returned the plan became clear.
*Goals* 1. Make it easier for users to switch between Leo and other programs, especially Leo and Emacs (org mode) and Jupyter. See #477 <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/issues/477>. 2. Provide all significant features of org mode and Jupyter within Leo. See #414 <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/issues/414>. I considered a client/server architecture for Leo. I am going to reject that approach for now. Jupyter provides those capabilities if desired. *Actions* My plan is simple: to read the *user* docs for org mode, ipython and jupyter, looking for features that Leo presently lacks. There is little point in reading *dev* docs for these programs, except in special circumstances. Leo's "ecology" is significantly richer than other IDE's, so the implementation of features within Leo will be quite different from in Emacs or IPython/Jupyter, again, except for special cases. *Consequences* The browser world continues to develop at a rapid pace, but I see little advantage in trying to do Leo in a browser. The security implications alone seem daunting. Instead, I'll continue to focus on the python world, looking for continuous incremental improvement. Reading the user docs has already given me several ideas: - As Kent (and others) have requested, it would be good to support @language python2 and @language python3, to support specific interpreters. - Ctrl-B (execute-script) should execute languages other than python in separate processes. This includes JavaScript. And Ctrl-B should could also be extended to run python scripts in a separate process. This should be straightforward. Leo already has the infrastructure to run pylint in a separate process. - It *might* be good to supply arguments to scripts, as in org mode #+BEGIN_SRC blocks. - Providing some IPython/Jupyter features will almost certainly be a good idea. *Conclusions* For the foreseeable future Leo will remain a desktop app, based on Python, My focus will be on better cooperation and competition with org mode and IPython/Jupyter. 2018 may see the completion of the work discussed here. I have no plans to stop working on Leo. 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 leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
