The title of this thread made me remember when I discovered Leo: it was back in 2002 on slashdot... reading the description I just had to try it out!
https://slashdot.org/story/02/08/28/1655207 I remember that evening, when I was amazed at the simple outline navigation and editing inspired from the 'MORE' outline editor, and the file generation/importing it allowed. Ah! some nostalgia about 2002, those were the good old days of my 20's! Félix On Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at 4:38:30 PM UTC-4 tbp1...@gmail.com wrote: > Here are two utility commands/scripts I use that help with this kind of > thing. > > 1) get_plugins -- Show all plugins with their their docstrings. > 2) Create Outline From Clipboard -- With a copied node or entire outline > in the clipboard, create a new outline from it. > > Run *get_plugins * with CTRL-B to install its commands. Run the *Create > Outline From Clipboard* node with CTRL-B when you have a node or outline > in the clipboard to create a new outline with that node. It's convenient > for making small outlines to share, like this attached one. > > In the output from *get_plugins* we can find this bit: > > nav_qt.py > Adds "Back" and "Forward" buttons (Qt only). Creates "back" > and "forward" buttons on button bar. These navigate the node > history. ... > > It's a whole lot easier than pawing through LeoPyRef to try to find out > what they do. > > On Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at 4:13:23 PM UTC-4 jkn wrote: > >> On Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at 8:01:58 PM UTC gates...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 3:29 PM jkn <jkn...@nicorp.f9.co.uk> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>> >>>> Bl**dy hell, I remember now, there used to be forward and back arrows >>>> on the toolbar, didn't there? Why do I no longer see them?? >>>> >>>> >>> I think they're part of the nav_qt.py (or similarly named) plugin. >>> Might not have it in @enabled-plugins :) >>> >> >> Thank you - somewhat amusingly I see in the plugins directory on this >> machine (my main one, for a long time), >> I have a nav_qt.pyc file from 2016! >> >> I guess I lost the plugin during some period of leo unuse around that >> time, and didn't re-enable it, >> nor remember about the buttons, when I later updated things. >> >> How I've been suffering for the last 5+ years... >> >> J^n >> >> >> -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/125a550f-e367-4f74-abb9-f89d0ae43f09n%40googlegroups.com.
