On Monday, October 3, 2022 at 10:08:07 AM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote:
> Hi Edward, thank you very much for your work! Leo is a great tool and
> helps me in my daily life!
>
> Just in case if you're wondering that could be done next - let me propose
> a few ideas.
>
> 1) Is it possible to make Leo more easy to install? I'm struggling for a
> while with installation on Windows and still have no success. I tried to
> follow the instructions at leoeditor.com but with no luck.
>
> I'm able to install Leo on Linux systems following my installation notes
> but... is it possible to include Leo in repositories of major Linux
> distributions, for example, Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.? Leo is an
> extremely useful tool and it would be great to make it more accessible to
> users. It is much more user friendly to install it using, say, "apt install
> leo" rather than doing the whole process manually.
>
I think that part of your problem is that the line on the install
instructions on leoeditor.com uses a type face that makes a double dash ("--")
look like a single one. And I don't think that most non-developer people
installing using pip need to use "--editable") at all.
Most people find that "python3 -m pip install leo" works fine and is as
easy as "apt-get install leo" would be. Creating install packages for
several Linux distros would require a lot of specialized knowledge and not
be easy. You could try to persuade, say, the Debian people to make such a
package. I realize that you have had install problems, but most people
don't. Ironically, some of my installs on Debian have in fact had
problems, mostly due to a missing software library that Debian should have
installed but didn't. BTW, I haven't had any problems installing on Linux
Mint, which I like better than Debian anyway. Mint is based on Ubuntu
which is based on Debian.
>
> 2) I'm stuck at Leo 6.3. For me, it is critically important to copy text
> from Leo outside. I can do it in Leo 6.3 by right clicking in the text area
> and selecting "Copy Text". However, I failed to find this capability in the
> 6.4 version, so, unfortunately, newer versions of Leo became unusable for
> me due to this reason. I assume that it is my fault, but if I didn't find
> it, some other users of Leo could fail to do this as well. Appreciate any
> idea on how to copy text from Leo. I would love to use the latest version
> if I could copy text!
>
I've never had any trouble copying text from Leo to the clipboard, in any
version of Leo. However, you do have to actually select the text you want
first. Simply clicking in the body would un-select any selection. If you
want to select the entire contents of a node, select it using CTRL-A, then
copy it. It's easiest to copy using the shortcut CTRL-C than to right
click and use a menu. Actually, as I just found out, right-clicking and
copying copies the entire node, with its Leo annotations. It doesn't just
copy the selected text. So just select the text you want and copy it with
CTRL-C.
> 3) Do you think it is a good idea to implement Leo in a compiled
> programming language instead of Python to make the installation process
> more user friendly and to improve performance? My Leo directory contains
> thousands of files -- maybe it could be optimized somehow.
>
Leo was originally written in a compiled language. But it would be
essentially impossible for Leo to support many of its important features
using a compiled language. Development would be harder and slower. And it
wouldn't make the installation process any easier. In fact, it would
probably make it harder.
> Thank you once again!
>
> Kind regards, Serhii
>
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