Re: Why Leo isn't more popular

2013-10-12 Thread Matt Wilkie
What an enormously long and interesting thread! Thanks for the sub-thread on using Leo for plain ol' writing. It rings true for me. Leo doesn't leverage much of my prior muscle memory, and that leads me away from it, and once away it takes awhile to return. This is still true even though I've

Re: Why Leo isn't more popular

2013-10-12 Thread Matt Wilkie
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Matt Wilkie map...@gmail.com wrote: Consequently I spend a lot of in-Leo time in a state of confusion, often unsure whether I'm trying to learn programming or python or Leo or more about the actual problem I'm started out trying to solve this morning. :) an

Re: Improving reformat-paragraph

2013-10-12 Thread Matt Wilkie
I would *love* a reformat paragraph command that doesn't break docstings or comments! On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Edward K. Ream edream...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: LeoPIM - recurring events library?

2013-10-12 Thread Matt Wilkie
might be worth seeing what Taskcoach uses. On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Terry Brown terry_n_br...@yahoo.com 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: Proposed workaround to refresh-from-disk problems

2013-10-12 Thread Matt Wilkie
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Edward K. Ream edream...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, there is always a workaround to problems with refresh-from-disk. Simply save the .leo file and reload. The save will be safe for never-read @file nodes, provided that you say no when asked whether you want to

Re: Programatically editing RTF

2013-10-12 Thread Matt Wilkie
pandoc understands RTF (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/index.html), though maybe not in the way you need (?) -- 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: Programatically editing RTF

2013-10-12 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Matt Wilkie map...@gmail.com wrote: pandoc understands RTF (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/index.html), though maybe not in the way you need (?) Wow. This a new world to me. Thanks for the link! Edward -- You received this message because you are

Re: Improving reformat-paragraph

2013-10-12 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Matt Wilkie map...@gmail.com wrote: I would *love* a reformat paragraph command that doesn't break docstings or comments! It will happen for b2 at the latest. EKR -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups leo-editor

Re: Check out Leo's new TOC

2013-10-12 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Viktor Ransmayr viktor.ransm...@gmail.comwrote: The new TOC looks really good. Based on this new structure I would propose a few more enhancements. 1) Consolidate the top-level nodes 'Downloading Leo', 'Installing Leo' and 'Running Leo' into a single

Re: 'Strange' problem with the rst3 command

2013-10-12 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Viktor Ransmayr viktor.ransm...@gmail.comwrote: Hello everyone, I encountered a strange problem, when creating the HTML file from a rST file via the rst3 command. Here is the log: [ snip] ### VR: First invocation of 'rst3' stylesheet not found ...

Re: Check out Leo's new theory of operation

2013-10-12 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Friday, October 11, 2013 4:40:48 PM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: It's at: http://leoeditor.com/theory.html For the first time ever, it concentrates on the highest-level view of the code. Actually, the *intent* of the chapter has no changed: it no longer focuses on the knowledge you

Re: Check out Leo's new theory of operation

2013-10-12 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Friday, October 11, 2013 4:40:48 PM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: Actually, the *intent* of the chapter has no changed... A confusing typo. I meant: Actually, the *intent* of the chapter *has* changed. EKR -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Check out Leo's new theory of operation

2013-10-12 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Friday, October 11, 2013 4:40:48 PM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: It's at: http://leoeditor.com/theory.html This chapter is intended for people like Terry and Ville. What a difference a day makes. The chapter is now called Exploring Leo's Code Base. The chapter has a totally different

Re: LeoPIM - recurring events library?

2013-10-12 Thread gatesphere
Just stumbled upon dateutil yesterday: http://labix.org/python-dateutil (see the module dateutil.rrule) --Jake On 10/12/2013 3:56 AM, Matt Wilkie wrote: might be worth seeing what Taskcoach uses. On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Terry Brown terry_n_br...@yahoo.com

Re: Check out Leo's new theory of operation

2013-10-12 Thread gatesphere
On 10/12/2013 7:59 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote: When I get there, it often feels like somebody else wrote it: I don't remember anything about the actual code. The old adage of six months pass and the code is foreign to you holds. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: A 3-part organization for tutorials

2013-10-12 Thread vili
@edward: The value of the 3-part organization is that quite a few people might use Leo as a PIM, or to write documents, without being programmers. Hi there, I am one of those apparently rare freaks. I've been using Leo for several years now for all but programming. Yes, it has been a pain to

Re: New plugin: rss.py - Leo is now a primitive RSS reader

2013-10-12 Thread gatesphere
This plugin has been updated as of rev 6139 to make it more configurable. Here's the relevant section of the docstring: Configuration Settings == This plugin is configured with the following @settings: @string rss-date-format --- Format