Re: File management potential in Leo

2015-02-01 Thread Dufriz
On Saturday, 31 January 2015 19:42:21 UTC, Don Dwiggins wrote: On 1/30/15 9:21 PM, Dufriz wrote: I am curious, could you please give a brief description of what Ecco is about? One place to start is an article I wrote a few years ago, focusing on Ecco's outline features:

Re: File management potential in Leo

2015-02-01 Thread jkn
Hi Don On Saturday, 31 January 2015 01:52:15 UTC, Don Dwiggins wrote: On 1/30/15 11:53 AM, jkn wrote: Sounds like Ecco Pro ;-) (which I also use as well as Leo; haven't been able to be as fluent in Leo for some things...) Ahh, glad there's another Ecconista on board. Having used

Re: File management potential in Leo

2015-01-31 Thread Don Dwiggins
On 1/30/15 9:21 PM, Dufriz wrote: I am curious, could you please give a brief description of what Ecco is about? One place to start is an article I wrote a few years ago, focusing on Ecco's outline features: http://www.compusol.org/ecco/outlining.html. As the article says, the basic unit

Re: File management potential in Leo

2015-01-30 Thread gatesphere
On 1/30/2015 2:18 PM, Don Dwiggins wrote: Just to add a bit of weight to this: In the ancient PIM I use, and which I'm hoping to replace with Leo, you can have multiple notepads, each a view on some part of an underlying structure. This allows me to have separate notepads for various aspects

Re: File management potential in Leo

2015-01-30 Thread Don Dwiggins
On 1/28/15 8:32 AM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:10 AM, karho...@gmail.com wrote: Briefly, the idea is about using two tree panes, side-by-side, to perform basic file management operations ​... I guess the crucial question here is: can Leo support two tree

Re: File management potential in Leo

2015-01-30 Thread jkn
On Friday, 30 January 2015 19:19:09 UTC, Don Dwiggins wrote: On 1/28/15 8:32 AM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:10 AM, kar...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Briefly, the idea is about using two tree panes, side-by-side, to perform basic file management

Re: File management potential in Leo

2015-01-30 Thread Don Dwiggins
Thanks for the pointers. I haven't tried much of anything yet beyond learning my way around the default layout. I'll record these for later reference, though. Don On 1/30/15 11:52 AM, gatesphere wrote: On 1/30/2015 2:18 PM, Don Dwiggins wrote: Just to add a bit of weight to this: In the

Re: File management potential in Leo

2015-01-30 Thread Don Dwiggins
On 1/30/15 11:53 AM, jkn wrote: Sounds like Ecco Pro ;-) (which I also use as well as Leo; haven't been able to be as fluent in Leo for some things...) Ahh, glad there's another Ecconista on board. Having used Ecco for 20 years, I'm anticipating a fairly long (re)learning curve, which I

Re: File management potential in Leo

2015-01-28 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:10 AM, karho...@gmail.com wrote: Briefly, the idea is about using two tree panes, side-by-side, to perform basic file management operations ​... I guess the crucial question here is: can Leo support two tree panes at the same time? ​Leo's tree pane is, in

Re: File management potential in Leo

2015-01-28 Thread 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:10 AM, karho...@gmail.com wrote: Briefly, the idea is about using two tree panes, side-by-side, to perform basic file management operations ​... I guess the crucial question here is: can Leo support two tree panes at the same time? The simplest thing to

File management potential in Leo

2015-01-27 Thread karhof21
This topic was already raised in an old post [1]. I want to pick up that idea again. Briefly, the idea is about using two tree panes, side-by-side, to perform basic file management operations, in the style of old two-pane file managers (like Norton Commander, or more recently the FAR file