Thanks, John, you nailed it exactly! With this functionality, it will be easy to use trees as templates. And that turns out to be what I've been doing this week.
On Saturday, May 23, 2020 at 3:36:21 AM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: > > > > On Saturday, May 23, 2020 at 7:09:20 AM UTC+10, Edward K. Ream wrote: >> >> >> >> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 1:06 PM Thomas Passin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> This sounds as if a cloned node in the original tree will end up as a >>> cloned node in the final tree. That is not what I see, though. The node >>> that is a clone in the original tree becomes a copy (not a clone) in the >>> pasted tree. That would fit in with "new gnx's for all pasted nodes". >>> >> >> You misunderstand me. If there are two (cloned nodes) A in the copied >> tree, those clones will be clones *of each other* in any pasted tree, as >> I have just verified. >> >> It's harder to describe what happens than to verify what happens. I'm >> quite sure Leo does the correct thing in all situations. >> > > I want to declare my interest in this subject. I have use cases similar to > what it seems Thomas has, which would benefit significantly from the > functionality I believe he's seeking. > > Edward, I also think I understand what you're referring to, but I think > you are referring to a different concern (preserving the nature of clones > that are internal to the tree being copied). I believe Thomas is referring > to how clones are handled when copying a tree that contains clones of nodes > that are outside the tree being copied. If so, I'm interested in this > problem also. Also, I think Thomas is not indicating a bug, but rather > enquiring about additional functionality. > > What I think both Thomas and I are interested in achieving is as follows. > Let's say we have a tree like below. Note that all nodes are NOT clones > unless specifically stated: > > [snip] > -- 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/44a1b933-a839-4ff6-847a-15ae2feb3d6b%40googlegroups.com.
