oh right, thanks. Yes, I'm sure I have seen the 'jumping around when pressing keys in wrong pane' scenario, but have never been sufficiently irked to track down what was going on
I'd have thought "move to the next headline that *starts with* a 'd'" might be better, but since I don't really use the feature I am not in a strong position to express a preference... On Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 6:21:43 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > The behavior confused me too. It means that if you are focused in the > outline pane, and type, say, a "d", the focus moves to the next headline > that contains a "d". I think it's a vestigial remnant of an attempt to > have a more sophisticated (but complicated) way of navigating to a node. > > In practice, if the focus shifted to the outline pane but you thought it > was still in the body - the usual case for me - when you started typing the > outline would start jumping around apparently without rhyme or reason. > > On Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 1:01:10 PM UTC-4 jkn wrote: > >> Can you explain what this actually affects, please? The current >> description: >> >> True: plain keys in the outline pane search for headlines. >> False: Ignore plain keys in the outline pane. >> >> doesn't make much sense to me... >> >> Thanks, J^n >> >> >> On Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 11:44:29 AM UTC+1 Edward K. Ream wrote: >> >>> I was shocked that the default for @bool plain-key-outline-search was >>> True. >>> >>> Rev fa3ad59 >>> <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/commit/fa3ad5946cac5e15ee5dea6fc55b3851ac76afa9> >>> >>> in devel makes the default False. >>> >>> This is the kind of nerdy featuritis that should *never* be the >>> default. This change is reason enough to release Leo 6.7.1 in November. >>> >>> If you do use this feature, please update your myLeoSettings.leo. >>> >>> 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/531353d5-976e-4e79-bd05-2a66e65e4e96n%40googlegroups.com.
