On Feb 2, 1:25 pm, Christopher Barker <[email protected]> wrote:
> OS-X support? > - native-ish key bindings (for the biggies, anyway - cut, copy, You can choose bindings as you wish in myLeoSettings.leo. leoSettings.leo doesn't necessarily give the OS-X bindings, but there is a setting to switch, iirc, command and clover keys, which may be a start. > paste, etc.). > - Set up to run as a *.app -- drag and drop file son it, etc. OS-X support isn't the best. > Language support: what kinds of text files are supported out of the box? > - C/ C++ ? > - LaTeX ? > - HTML/ XML ? > - CSV (or tab-delimited) ? > - plain old text, with spell checking and stuff like that. Leo supports syntax coloring for all languages supported by jEdit, which is several dozen at least. See http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/coloring.html > Why so long with the interactive search -- that is THE FEATURE that I > NEED in an editor -- it is really remarkable how much more efficient it > is than having to decide how much a search term I need to type, and then > search for it! Again, because none of Leo's power users has asked for it. Leo does have isearch commands. At present they are limited to the present node, but there is at least the start of cross-node matches. It's hairy. This will be this weeks work. The lack of isearch hasn't bothered me, but maybe I'm missing something truly useful. OTOH, sometimes Leo's environment changes the design point. > Interesting about the wx front-end -- frankly, I don't think I care -- > I'm a wx guy, but if I have a good editor, I can't really imagine I'd > need to be writing custom GUI code for it, so I don't really care what > toolkit it uses -- as long as it runs on all three platforms I need. I agree. But in the back of my mind is the swing/jython gui as a gateway to eclipse. But maybe that's not such a great idea :-) > Python scripting I do want -- so I am looking for an editor scriptable in > Python. Scripting is Leo's forte. See @button: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/scripting.html#creating-script-buttons @test: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/unitTesting.html iLeo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/IPythonBridge.html Edward
