Re: Check out Leo's home page!

2013-10-06 Thread Fidel N
Wow, its great, and a lot easier to join and begin to learn with easy tutorials! Thanks for this great job Edward. I said this in another post, but I will say again: I think that placing a big Download banner somewhere in that first webpage would be very useful, for people who want to take a

Re: Check out Leo's home page!

2013-10-06 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 4:39 AM, Fidel N fidelpe...@gmail.com wrote: I said this in another post, but I will say again: I think that placing a big Download banner somewhere in that first webpage would be very useful, for people who want to take a quick glance of Leo. I agree. Leo's web page

Re: Check out Leo's home page!

2013-10-06 Thread Fidel N
Wow I love the download button, the website is perfect now, thanks!! Its true it could use some designers help haha but the main objective (jumping to the eyes) is done here! =D On Sunday, October 6, 2013 1:39:46 PM UTC+2, Edward K. Ream wrote: On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 4:39 AM, Fidel N

Re: Check out Leo's home page!

2013-10-06 Thread Fidel N
Then again, when you click download Leo, I would again add a Download Now button, so people who dont want to read just click, and people who wants to know a bit better will read the explanation on which is the latest version etc. I have no trouble in reading the details on which is the last

Re: Check out Leo's home page!

2013-10-06 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 5:19 PM, gatesphere gatesph...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, one request -- the new tutorials are awesome, but please don't get rid of the old ones. They helped me a lot, and I think they're great for new users, after they try the new tutorials first that is. Thinking about

Re: B1 is code complete. Please test

2013-10-06 Thread Viktor Ransmayr
Hello Terry, Am Samstag, 5. Oktober 2013 22:51:02 UTC+2 schrieb Terry: On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 13:20:49 -0700 (PDT) Viktor Ransmayr viktor@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Hello Edward, hello Terry, I just noticed that I can *not* enter the 'euro' sign anymore within Leo. I tried

Re: Check out Leo's home page!

2013-10-06 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sunday, October 6, 2013 6:49:54 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: I'd like to offload the seemingly endless discussion of cursor-related key bindings from the body of the first tutorial. Actually, I misremembered. In fact, the discussion in the first tutorial is quite good and compact.

Re: Check out Leo's home page!

2013-10-06 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sunday, October 6, 2013 10:59:39 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: In short, it looks like the first tutorial is pretty good as it is. Just added a Summary section: http://leoeditor.com/basics1.html#summary The first tutorial now tells em what it told em. I wonder if it should also tell

Re: Check out Leo's home page!

2013-10-06 Thread gatesphere
On 10/6/2013 12:33 PM, Edward K. Ream wrote: The first tutorial now tells em what it told em. In that section, you might want to say something like Leo has hundreds of commands, each having a command name. BUT you can get by just fine with a small subset that works for you. You don't need to

Re: Check out Leo's home page!

2013-10-06 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 11:49 AM, gatesphere gatesph...@gmail.com wrote: you might want to say something like Leo has hundreds of commands, each having a command name. BUT you can get by just fine with a small subset that works for you. You don't need to know all of them to use Leo. I

Re: Check out Leo's home page!

2013-10-06 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Edward K. Ream edream...@gmail.com wrote: I think the summary will just say, Every command s has a name. Make that, *command*, singular. EKR -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups leo-editor group. To unsubscribe

A 3-part organization for tutorials

2013-10-06 Thread Edward K. Ream
I think there should be at least 3 tutorials: 1. Learn the basics of Leo in 30 minutes. 2. Learn how to use Leo as a PIM in 30 minutes. 3. Learn how to use Leo for programming in one hour. Indeed, the Creating Leo Files section is out of place in the existing first tutorial: it's harder than

Re: A 3-part organization for tutorials

2013-10-06 Thread gatesphere
On 10/6/2013 2:35 PM, Edward K. Ream wrote: I like what you're thinking of above. It makes sense, and that's usually the best guideline. This is yet another example of refactoring text. Leo excels at this task, but only recently have I become obsessed with refactoring text in both large

Improving reformat-paragraph

2013-10-06 Thread Edward K. Ream
This command was a major advance when one of Leo's users created it. Don't remember who it was. However, it's limitations are becoming apparent as I use it constantly. I would like to redefine what constitutes a paragraph, for the purposes of this command. Any line starting with @ or a line

Re: B1 is code complete. Please test

2013-10-06 Thread Terry Brown
On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:00:22 -0700 (PDT) Viktor Ransmayr viktor.ransm...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Edward, Am Donnerstag, 26. September 2013 18:35:51 UTC+2 schrieb Edward K. Ream: The code for Leo 4.11b1 is frozen, except for fixes to recently released code. Please test it and report any

Re: A 3-part organization for tutorials

2013-10-06 Thread Viktor Ransmayr
Hello Edward, Am Sonntag, 6. Oktober 2013 20:35:30 UTC+2 schrieb Edward K. Ream: I think there should be at least 3 tutorials: 1. Learn the basics of Leo in 30 minutes. 2. Learn how to use Leo as a PIM in 30 minutes. 3. Learn how to use Leo for programming in one hour. Indeed, the

Re: Check out Leo's home page!

2013-10-06 Thread Seth Johnson
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Edward K. Ream edream...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, October 6, 2013 10:59:39 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: The first tutorial now tells em what it told em. I wonder if it should also tell em what it is *about* to tell em... Yes. It just needs to say

Re: A 3-part organization for tutorials

2013-10-06 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Viktor Ransmayr viktor.ransm...@gmail.comwrote: I'm interested to see how you'll find the right balance b/w what goes into the second third tutorial. The third tutorial covers everything about programming and scripting. The rst3 command doesn't require any

Re: A 3-part organization for tutorials

2013-10-06 Thread Fidel N
Im enjoying all the steps of birth and growth of the tutorials hehe. I like that segregation between non programers and programmers for the 3rd tuto :) On Monday, October 7, 2013 2:30:11 AM UTC+2, Edward K. Ream wrote: On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Viktor Ransmayr

Re: B1 is code complete. Please test

2013-10-06 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Terry Brown terry_n_br...@yahoo.com wrote: To make euro signs with ctrl-alt-e I had to set the keyboard layout to DE (German), I assume you've done something similar, and comment out (add #): # set-find-anywhere= Alt-Ctrl-e in

Re: B1 is code complete. Please test

2013-10-06 Thread Terry Brown
On Sun, 6 Oct 2013 21:21:00 -0500 Edward K. Ream edream...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Terry Brown terry_n_br...@yahoo.com wrote: To make euro signs with ctrl-alt-e I had to set the keyboard layout to DE (German), I assume you've done something similar, and comment