Re: Leo can be embedded in VS Code if...

2018-05-22 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 6:23:26 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > To be clear, neither Terry and I have expressed any willingness to undertake such a large and risky endeavor. But the invitation now is out in the world... I'm still experimenting with this mental technology. Two, no

Leo can be embedded in VS Code if...

2018-05-22 Thread Edward K. Ream
I have just added the following two paragraphs to #906 : Leo can be embedded in VS Code (or other platform) if somebody (probably not one of Leo's present devs) takes full responsibility for doing so. Leo can be rewritten in JavaScript (or

Re: Please read: "You can do that if..."

2018-05-22 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Monday, May 21, 2018 at 8:22:01 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > Transforming "We *can't* do x because of y" into "We *can *do x if z" is >> a brilliant, and brilliantly simple, way of encouraging innovation while >> setting proper limits. >> > > ...Making this explicit has at least these

9c1879658 (devel): pylint writes clickable links to log pane

2018-05-22 Thread Edward K. Ream
This is a continuation of Terry's excellent work with clickable links. They quickly become necessary. The code can be generalized. BackgroundProcessManager.start_process now takes two new kwargs: link_pattern and link_root: - link_pattern: a regex string or compiled regex pattern, used to

Re: Wanted: missing features from VS code, Atom, etc

2018-05-22 Thread john lunzer
On Monday, May 21, 2018 at 2:30:25 PM UTC-4, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > *Other panes* > > Most IDE's support lots and lots of other views. It's an open question > how useful these would be in Leo. > Rather than focus entirely on usefulness (which is always important to focus on) it is also

Re: Wanted: missing features from VS code, Atom, etc

2018-05-22 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 6:37 AM, john lunzer wrote: > Rather than focus entirely on usefulness > ​... > it is also important to consider what this would mean architecturally. > ​These two questions are pretty much completely separate. Yes, we want to consider the

Re: Global and local @outline-data tree-abbreviations

2018-05-22 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Monday, May 14, 2018 at 11:34:27 AM UTC-5, Rob wrote: > > I have a quite extensive (and growing) collection of tree abbreviations in > myLeoSettings.leo. I would like to also have some local-only tree > abbreviations that are only relevant for specific xxx.leo files. For > `regular`