Re: Why Leo isn't more popular

2013-10-02 Thread derwisch
Am Montag, 30. September 2013 17:31:42 UTC+2 schrieb Terry: I think a lot of the problem is defining what Leo is. To me, it's to directed acyclic graphs what MS Excel is to tables. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups leo-editor group. To

Re: Why Leo isn't more popular

2013-10-02 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:44 PM, gatesphere gatesph...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/1/2013 10:15 PM, Seth Johnson wrote: This e-book has a whole sub-heading on using Leo for Joomla: http://www.gandsnut.net/**downloads/Beginning_Joomla!_**

Re: Could minibuffer abbreviations replace @modes?

2013-10-02 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Terry Brown terry_n_br...@yahoo.comwrote: So we can't do this kind of abbreviation in the body pane; it must be done in the minibuffer. For example, alt-xf. might *immediately* expand to something, without having to type tab. I think this sounds

Re: Why Leo isn't more popular

2013-10-02 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 11:17:17 AM UTC-5, dufriz wrote: As a newbie who still has zero knowledge of Leo's technical details, I can say: I have absolutely no problem in conceptualizing what Leo is and what it can do, and probably I also get the Leo's aha -- the difficulty is in

Quick script to report on past-due tasks

2013-10-02 Thread Jacob Peck
Hi all, In my recent attempts to make Leo the center of my productivity, I wrote a quick script that might be useful to others who use todo.py. https://github.com/leo-editor/snippets/blob/master/past-due-report.py That spits out in the log pane the headlines of any tasks which are past

Re: Could minibuffer abbreviations replace @modes?

2013-10-02 Thread Terry Brown
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 04:49:46 -0500 Edward K. Ream edream...@gmail.com wrote: I think this sounds really useful. Alt-X tsl (text sort lines - selected lines are sorted) Alt-X tur (text upcase region - selected text is upcased) but I'm wondering if Alt-X can be overloaded this way.

Leo in under one hour

2013-10-02 Thread Edward K. Ream
The replies to this post will comprise the various parts of the Leo in one hour tutorials. All comments welcome. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups leo-editor group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: Leo in under one hour

2013-10-02 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 9:49:31 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: The replies to this post will comprise the various parts of the Leo in one hour tutorials. All comments welcome. First tutorial: Leo's main window in 2 minutes Leo's main window consists of an **outline pane** at the

Re: Leo in under one hour

2013-10-02 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 9:49:31 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: The replies to this post will comprise the various parts of the Leo in one hour tutorials. All comments welcome. The second tutorial: Navigation in 10 minutes Arrow keys (including the Home and End keys) navigate

Re: Leo in under one hour

2013-10-02 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 9:49:31 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: The replies to this post will comprise the various parts of the Leo in one hour tutorials. All comments welcome. Note: This will likely be the fourth tutorial; the third editing text in 15 minutes isn't ready yet.

Re: Leo in under one hour

2013-10-02 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 9:49:31 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: The replies to this post will comprise the various parts of the Leo in one hour tutorials. All comments welcome. This is adapted from the first part of the minibuffer slideshow:

Re: Leo in under one hour

2013-10-02 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 9:49:31 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: The replies to this post will comprise the various parts of the Leo in one hour tutorials. All comments welcome. Note: the bindings to F11 and F12 will be new. Getting help in 2 minutes F1 invokes Leo's help

Re: Leo in under one hour

2013-10-02 Thread Fidel N
Thanks for all of those Edward. Please, since we are making these changes, could we do it so Leo opens by default with an outline containing those guides and other cheat sheets and tutorials we will be adding, or at least have a hotkey or leo file in the help menu that will contain only newbie

Re: Leo in under one hour

2013-10-02 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Fidel N fidelpe...@gmail.com wrote: Please, since we are making these changes, could we do it so Leo opens by default with an outline containing those guides and other cheat sheets and tutorials we will be adding, or at least have a hotkey or leo file in the

Re: Leo in under one hour

2013-10-02 Thread Fidel N
Haha great, I wish that existed some months ago when I started out with Leo!! On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 6:15:56 PM UTC+2, Edward K. Ream wrote: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Fidel N fidel...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Please, since we are making these changes, could we do it so

Re: Census of Leo users interested in PIM capabilities

2013-10-02 Thread Don Dwiggins
On 9/30/13 8:58 AM, duf...@gmail.com wrote: As per title... are you interested in using Leo as a PIM? Yes, although at the moment, I'm just a Leo lurker (with plans to take the dive when I can break out a sufficient block of time to grok the Tao of Leo). What features do you require,

Re: Leo in under one hour

2013-10-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 07:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Edward K. Ream edream...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 9:49:31 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: The replies to this post will comprise the various parts of the Leo in one hour tutorials. All comments welcome. First

LeoPIM - recurring events library?

2013-10-02 Thread Terry Brown
Anyone know of a python, preferably, light-weight, preferably, library for managing recurring events? I searched a while ago and found nothing except Chandler's, which was too embedded in Chandler. Cheers -Terry -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: LeoPIM - recurring events library?

2013-10-02 Thread Jacob Peck
On 10/2/2013 12:49 PM, Terry Brown wrote: Anyone know of a python, preferably, light-weight, preferably, library for managing recurring events? I searched a while ago and found nothing except Chandler's, which was too embedded in Chandler. Cheers -Terry This is what I stumbled upon:

Re: LeoPIM - recurring events library?

2013-10-02 Thread Terry Brown
On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:57:12 -0400 Jacob Peck gatesph...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/2/2013 12:49 PM, Terry Brown wrote: Anyone know of a python, preferably, light-weight, preferably, library for managing recurring events? I searched a while ago and found nothing except Chandler's, which was

Re: Leo in under one hour

2013-10-02 Thread Alec Burgess
On 2013-10-02 10:53, Edward K. Ream wrote: Type foo and typereturn to start the find-next command. When Leo finds the next instance of def, it will select it. You now have three options: 1. To make the replacement, typeCtrl-minus (replace-then-find). 2. To continue searching without making

Re: Leo in under one hour

2013-10-02 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Alec Burgess bura...@gmail.com wrote: Wouldn't there normally be an option 4. auto-replace-then-find to END? (actually replace-to-end should be 3) Huh! At present there isn't. Surprising, but somehow it never seems to be useful. Maybe the reason is that Leo

todo or not todo

2013-10-02 Thread Terry Brown
todo.py changes My personal practice has been to misuse the due date field as the date on which I will next work on this item. Dumb. So I'm adding a next work date field. There's a control for changing the due date (currently) +/- relative to its self or today's date, so you can quickly set it

Re: todo or not todo

2013-10-02 Thread Terry Brown
On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 17:13:30 -0400 gatesphere gatesph...@gmail.com wrote: I do the same as you, re: duedate as next-work date. :-) so obviously next work date was missing and needs to be there I agree the change is valid... duedate shouldn't change. I'd suggest using next-work-date to

Re: todo or not todo

2013-10-02 Thread gatesphere
On 10/2/2013 5:32 PM, Terry Brown wrote: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 17:13:30 -0400 gatesphere gatesph...@gmail.com wrote: I do the same as you, re: duedate as next-work date. :-) so obviously next work date was missing and needs to be there Ayup :) I agree the change is valid... duedate shouldn't

Writing Basics

2013-10-02 Thread Chris George
Hello, I have decided to stop being so self sufficient and to ask for help. :-) I want to be able to write a text file with the nodes I select only, written out as rst without sentinels or comments. I have tried a variety of things and managed to work a document through to .odt but only with

Re: Writing Basics

2013-10-02 Thread Fidel N
Which is your plan to select those nodes? How will some of them be different from the others so a possible script would identify them? If you don't have a way yet, I would clone the selected nodes under a new node, so then you can use a script to merge them all into an @asis node. Would that do

Re: Writing Basics

2013-10-02 Thread Chris George
Hi Fidel, Perfect. I kept messing with @shadow and @file and @all (to stop it from complaining about orphans) and @ignore (which it didn't like at all). This is elegant and a different way of thinking. I am still getting used to the idea of clones. :-) Chris On Wednesday, October 2, 2013