On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 5:42 AM john lunzer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Your plan of careful consideration here is warranted, lest these become > distractions. As my area of expertise is emacs these days and I regularly > use org mode I would argue heavily against Leo's interaction with emacs, > though it doesn't' seem that you need much convincing. The emacs culture is > steadfast and the org-mode sub-culture more so. It is not worth one's time > to bring Leo to emacs/org as that culture is happy with what they have. It > is *perhaps* worth one's time to bring some of org to Leo, but this can > be done via "feature borrowing" as opposed bridging. > Thanks for your perspective. > > With regards to Leo and emacs the focus, if any, should be on an org-mode > importer and exporter. I believe these already exist but in what state I > can't say, if there are improvements that can be done and it is interesting > to you then go ahead, I believe any work towards these would be beneficial > to Leo's universal utility. That said I don't think this work is a high > priority. > At present nobody is complaining. You also make a good point about Flexx's short comings. I was hoping that > Flexx would continue to be developed and it was looking like it would but > Almar Klein has all but abandoned the project in favor of his own QT based > editor. It's too bad, for a while it almost felt like Flexx was the future > of Python UIs. > I was referring to the underlying key-related problems of browsers. Afaik, flexx is not to blame. > You're doing great and Leo is doing great without the constant barrage of > "I wish Leo did this" requests. Leo's legacy will be more affected by your > day to day collapsing of complexity than anything else. New features are > great but streamlining Leo's current capabilities offers more value. > Collapsing complexity is an ongoing project. So is converting non-outline-related @test nodes in unitTest.leo to "proper" test cases in individual files. That said, I rely on feature requests and bug reports to move Leo forward. Naturally, I give priority to my own desires, but Leo is close to perfect for 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/CAMF8tS2Xn03BM3pyAx1Pk2z74CviMvk0kuMfTZ9uCJFxg0QGZg%40mail.gmail.com.
