On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Edward K. Ream <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Bill Baxter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'm not sure how to get a working copy of Leo's trunk. Do you put >> snapshots anywhere? > > Yes. http://www.greygreen.org/leo/
Thanks. That's only so much help, though, when I'm still stuck on how to open a file. :-) > Your question illustrates why newbies are so important to Leo. I hadn't > realized that there is no obvious link to this page. I'll put a link to it > on Leo's home page and in Leo's FAQ. > > However, if at all possible, I recommend using bzr to get the latest version > of Leo. In the long run, this is much more convenient than getting > snapshots. Furthermore, bzr is a superb tool, well worth learning in its > own right. Leo has benefited greatly from bzr branches created by > developers. And you will need to use bzr if you intend to extend Leo. > > For instructions about bzr, see the first entry in Leo's FAQ: > > http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/FAQ.html#how-do-i-use-bzr-to-get-the-latest-sources-from-leo-s-launchpad-site Thanks for the link. I'm using mercurial regularly and I hear it's pretty much the same thing as bzr. And since there seems to be no clear winner in the fight to become the world's dominant dvcs, I might as well have bzr handy too. >> All these answers are encouraging. I think the issue I have now might >> be like the one the poster below suggests. You have various tutorials >> about the many advanced and unique features of Leo, but do you have a >> basic tutorial anywhere explaining how you just open edit a file? > > Good point. Improving Leo's tutorial is becoming urgent. > > I'd like to rewrite all of Leo's introductory docs using a "story-based" > approach inspired by the book "Ideas that stick". Using Leo to "just open > and edit a file" would be one of the very first stories. Don't know that book, but the idea sounds good. > So we have a good collaboration going already. You've highlighted several > things that will confuse newbies. I'm glad that you're taking these comments as constructive criticisms rather than getting defensive about it. >> I think if you can soften the transition a bit from regular editor to >> the leo way, you can probably convince a few more people. > > I agree completely. I'll see what I can do in the next three days... Great. I have some old code (that I wrote once upon a time) that I'll be going through soon, and it seems like an ideal chance to put leo's annotation skills to the test. --bb
