Re: UI Principle 3: Recognition over recall

2013-12-12 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Chris George wrote: (Most GUI apps restrict Alt-Key combinations to support the menu items. > It's always legitimate to consider the key bindings that should be in effect by default (that is, for newbies). I doubt, though, that such things are preventing people

Re: Can 'sidecar' files carry outline structure?

2013-12-12 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Largo84 wrote: > Advance apology if this has already been considered and discarded as > impractical, stupid or whatever (since I'm not a programmer) > It's not a stupid idea, but it won't work. The problem is keeping the two sets of files in synch. The best app

Re: UI Principle 3: Recognition over recall

2013-12-12 Thread Chris George
(Shirt-F10) is a UI convention that works in *most* applications that worry about things like conventions. The only reason I use the keyboard so much, as compared to people who started using computers after Windows took over, was that I learned to write using Wordperfect 5. There are many prog

Re: Can 'sidecar' files carry outline structure?

2013-12-12 Thread gatesphere
On 12/12/2013 9:18 PM, Largo84 wrote: Advance apology if this has already been considered and discarded as impractical, stupid or whatever (since I'm not a programmer),but I work with raw image files in photography that have 'sidecar' files (XMP) that carry the metadata and editing instruct

Can 'sidecar' files carry outline structure?

2013-12-12 Thread Largo84
Advance apology if this has already been considered and discarded as impractical, stupid or whatever (since I'm not a programmer),but I work with raw image files in photography that have 'sidecar' files (XMP) that carry the metadata and editing instructions (they're nothing more than glorif

Re: UI Principle 3: Recognition over recall

2013-12-12 Thread Terry Brown
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 07:27:51 -0800 (PST) Chris George wrote: > IMHO, everything that can be done with the mouse should be accessible to > the keyboard and vice versa. One thing I noticed immediately about Leo is > that the context menu on nodes and body text is not accessible via keyboard The

Re: Problems when external file data is also saved in the .leo file

2013-12-12 Thread Terry Brown
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:52:25 -0800 (PST) SegundoBob wrote: > > > On Sunday, December 8, 2013 4:00:27 AM UTC-8, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > > > > > I suspect caching doesn't change anything, because loading an @file node > > from the cache should be exactly equivalent to loading the @file node

Re: Tangentially related quote on the walls programmers build for themselves

2013-12-12 Thread Terry Brown
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:53:25 -0600 "Edward K. Ream" wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Jacob Peck wrote: > > > I think this speaks volumes for why people are so resistant to change, even > > users... Leo does things just a bit *differently*, and people ignore it or > > avoid it for fear

Re: OFF-TOPIC: Lucid dreaming device

2013-12-12 Thread Ludwig Schwardt
Hi Fidel! Sorry for feeding the topic... :-) This looks like a souped-up version of the NovaDreamer produced by the Lucidity Institute many years ago. I used to dream of getting one back in the days. Eventually I had two or three lucid dreams by myself but also found it hard work... Ludwig -- Y

OFF-TOPIC: Lucid dreaming device

2013-12-12 Thread Fidel N
Hey! We have recently been talking about dreams, and Id like to share this with you guys. I have long been reading and trying to have lucid dreams. Dreams in which your conscious mind realizes you are dreaming,but you stay dreaming, so you happen to be able to control your dreams, vividly recall

Re: New thoughts about @auto, working with Nancy & clones

2013-12-12 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 11:13:05 AM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: > = Working with Nancy > > ...Nancy might use **organizer comments** rather than organizer nodes. > For example:: > > > # Imports > > > rather than << imports >>. With just a *little bit

Re: Scripts vs. macros

2013-12-12 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Monday, November 25, 2013 2:37:49 PM UTC-6, Dave Loyall wrote: > > Edward, though I am an org-mode user, I keep an eye on Leo. > > This is because, as far as I know, org-mode has no mechanism similar to > your type of clones. Your clones are elegant. The things you can do with > @others are

Re: New thoughts about sentinels, sharing & @shadow

2013-12-12 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Seth Johnson wrote: > Isn't @shadow really a sort of extension to what diff does? Just > geared to deal with structure? And with inherent imperfections just > as diff has? > All true. Furthermore, @shadow guarantees that the resulting outline, when written (and