A couple of points from this interesting list:
> - leo ... includes ... a copy of an editor (CKEditor4) that is apparently
written in Javascript
Really?!?
> - highlighted text (including URLs are NOT links. you need to copy/paste
them to open (or maybe use a still-to-discover setting)
Ctrl-click on a URL will (should) take you there. I am not sure where this
is documented, there are probably more of these. There is a recent
discussion about 'right-click on the splitter bar' which gave hints of a
world beyond my knowing...
> - the minibuffer is inherited from emacs, and serves ... a yet to
discover number of functions
Personally I think 'minibuffer' is an unhelpful name, it's just an
interface to allow you to enter commands to Leo. Type 'show-commands' in
the minibuffer and you should get a long list of available commands in the
log window.
HTH, a little at least
J^n
On Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 10:07:43 PM UTC [email protected] wrote:
> Well, I came across leo last week, looking for a python IDE that would
> (potentially)
> - run on Windows
> - allow to make the resulting python run on a separate computer (same
> network but different subnet) for security reasons, maybe on Linux.
> - ideally, the python script could run with another user account and
> decrypt the data files locally, so that the programmer would not access
> data at all.
> - the Python file would then create aggregated results and send (or share)
> them to other team members.
> On that project, no decision has been taken yet, likely to happen end of
> Q2.
>
> But my history is close to map...'s one :
> - I tried mind map tools and was dissatisfied (I don't care about
> "beautiful links" and I'm colorblind). I mostly use Excel sheets for that.
> - I searched for decades for the perfect file editor (still notepad++ for
> me, I'm not the vi or emacs type)
> - I also used OneNote (on a on-off, not really satistied basis)
> - My interest on python is both on "datafile crunching" and "time series
> graphics"
> - I used twiki 20 years ago and contributed a few routines, including
> HandlingPlurals (now removed, only echoed on Ward Cunningham c2.com,
> stale recently, i.e. in 2015)
>
> In the mean time/week, I installed leo (once), wrote my first outline,
> lost it (maybe it's somewhere on my computer), and discovered a few things
> that should be documented IMHO but could look obviously trivial for the
> core team
> - a .leo file is using XML and using userid and timestamps for node
> description, but the text is ... untouched UTF-8?
> - leo is said to be "an editor" written in Python, but includes ... a copy
> of an editor (CKEditor4) that is apparently written in Javascript, and
> unpatched since 2014 (and unused ?)
> - leo commands are of the form "@name", most of which a newbie like me
> should ignore, and some of which are purposely undocumented (@root and
> others)
> - for a newbie, there could be more answers to FAQ in the history.leo file
> than in the FAQ itself.
> - the minibuffer is inherited from emacs, and serves ... a yet to discover
> number of functions
> - many of the .leo files are probably there for history only. Could be an
> interesting journey, wonderland, or getting lost in useless files (or nodes
> ? or sth else ?)
> - several the .leo files are information that may be important only for
> .leo developers (or maybe only the inventor himself ?). My limited python
> experience give me absolutely no clue what they could be used for. In any
> case, there are not tagged "for dev only" or so.
> - the leo windows is using Qt internally
> - EKR is the userID of Edward, the inventor and maintainer of leo
> - highlighted text (including URLs are NOT links. you need to copy/paste
> them to open (or maybe use a still-to-discover setting)
> - opening leo will open the "workbook.leo" outline by default, but likely
> others as well according to settings.
>
> On Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 10:10:52 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> It has been almost 14 months since I discovered Leo and today I recalled
>>> how I found it.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for this thread. I've been trying to recall my own path of
>> discovery. No concrete memory has emerged, but it was somewhere in the
>> intersection of being dissatisfied with wiki notes and mind/concept
>> mapping, starting to learn python, and a multi-decade quest for the perfect
>> text editor (1999-2004
>> <https://web.archive.org/web/20080524194444/http://www.uttara.ca/patawi/matt/musings/favedit.html>,
>>
>> 2010 <http://www.maphew.com/Musings/long-live-the-aurora-text-editor/>).
>> Gmail says I subscribed to the Leo mailing list in 2009 with my first
>> concrete contribution in August -- a Windows install recipe
>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/leo-editor/rdYkLW9PxHY/Nph1SOhHOBcJ>.
>> Huh. I'm still doing that now!
>>
>> In spite of the lengthy time since discovering Leo and bringing it into
>> my permanent toolkit, it's still not front and centre for much of my
>> activity. Onenote desktop
>> <https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-s-the-difference-between-OneNote-and-OneNote-2016-a624e692-b78b-4c09-b07f-46181958118f>is
>>
>> my primary writing and organizing tool (the web app is ...meh) and Pyzo
>> <https://github.com/pyzo/>the first stop for exploratory python. Much as
>> I love text I'm still a strong graphic creature. My dream writing platform
>> is all of the best parts of rich text & media editing fused with Leo's node
>> management and scripting. Bonus points if it's webby lets me punt Wordpress
>> and all the other web content management things I've tried and discarded
>> (jekyll, acrylamid, drupal, mindtouch, deki-wiki, twiki).
>>
>> There is substantive aroma of my dream in the air right now, which is
>> very exciting. :)
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> matt
>>
>>
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