Re: Question on @mode

2012-05-03 Thread Chris George
Thanks for the response. I am firmly on Linux. I figured out how to make Leo do what I needed it to do and by the time I need more I will hopefully know more. Its good to know, though, that I have somewhere to ask questions. Chris On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 5:30 PM, HansBKK hans...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: About vim and Leo

2012-05-16 Thread Chris George
Many, many writers already appreciate outlines. After I figured out how to bind reSt to hotkeys (thanks Edward), I have been using it happily and creatively. It would be an easy sell to writers if the learning curve was less steep. The massive configurability (programmability) of Leo will put off

Re: Why Leo isn't more popular

2013-09-30 Thread Chris George
Hello, I came to Leo because it is the only outliner for Linux that supports cloning that doesn't require an internet connection. I am struggling to implement it into my workflow though, simply because I do not have time to figure out the simplest things. (full time university student) Right now

Re: Why Leo isn't more popular

2013-09-30 Thread Chris George
with it, but that has been going on for almost two years now and I have yet to commit to any serious work in Leo. Chris On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Terry Brown terry_n_br...@yahoo.comwrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:31:25 -0700 Chris George technat...@gmail.com wrote: I need basic text formatting

Re: Census of Leo users interested in PIM capabilities

2013-09-30 Thread Chris George
Hello dufriz, I have been using piggydb to do exactly what you are talking about. Chris On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Jacob Peck gatesph...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/30/2013 12:33 PM, Terry Brown wrote: But I think you were drawing a distinction between 'batteries included' (~core) and

Re: Why Leo isn't more popular

2013-09-30 Thread Chris George
-7, Terry wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:55:04 -0700 Chris George techn...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Hi Terry, Almost. That plus the ability to be writing along and hit Ctrl-b s u d d e n l y Ctrl-b and continue on. Which boils down to Ctrl-b inserting '*' if there's

Re: Why Leo isn't more popular

2013-09-30 Thread Chris George
(PDT) Chris George technat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Terry, I guess it does. It may seem silly, as I could just type the *, but Shift-8 isn't baked into muscle memory, Ctrl-b is. Sure, I was just confirming that was what you meant. I haven't used Emacs for years and years

Re: Why Leo isn't more popular

2013-09-30 Thread Chris George
and the camelcase you provided. Nothing. Chris On Monday, September 30, 2013 12:29:41 PM UTC-7, Terry wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:05:23 -0700 Chris George techn...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Hi Terry, I am now running rev. 6082. I have downloaded the ctrl_b_i_u.py file. Now what

Re: Why Leo isn't more popular

2013-09-30 Thread Chris George
On Monday, September 30, 2013 12:43:57 PM UTC-7, Chris George wrote: Hi Terry, I am probably about to appear very stupid, but myLeoSettings.leo does not exist on my computer. And myLeoSettings.leo does not appear in any of the Leo documentation or at least none that is searchable from

Re: Why Leo isn't more popular

2013-09-30 Thread Chris George
Hi Jake, Thanks. It works fine now. Now I can use Leo as a word processor! With a cloning outliner! Chris On Monday, September 30, 2013 1:13:03 PM UTC-7, Jacob Peck wrote: On 9/30/2013 4:10 PM, Chris George wrote: !DOCTYPE html Looks like you saved the github prittified version

Re: Why Leo isn't more popular

2013-09-30 Thread Chris George
Sep 2013 12:43:57 -0700 (PDT) Chris George techn...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Hi Terry, I am probably about to appear very stupid, but myLeoSettings.leo does not exist on my computer. And myLeoSettings.leo does not appear in any of the Leo documentation or at least none

Re: Why Leo isn't more popular

2013-09-30 Thread Chris George
Hi Terry, That works great. Thanks for doing this for me. Now I can spend time being productive and learning Leo at the same time. Chris On Monday, September 30, 2013 2:22:15 PM UTC-7, Terry wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:51:06 -0700 (PDT) Chris George techn...@gmail.com javascript: wrote

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 Chris George
into an @asis node. Would that do it? On Thursday, October 3, 2013 1:18:54 AM UTC+2, Chris George wrote: 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

Re: Terry, which recent plugin inserts rst bold/italic markup?

2013-10-19 Thread Chris George
memory thing from so many years in front of a word processor. Chris George On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:20 AM, Edward K. Ream edream...@gmail.com wrote: When I first read the request, from I don't remember who, for key binding for character-formatting markup I thought, this is such a small matter

Re: bookmarks.py workflow video

2013-10-24 Thread Chris George
Hi All, Another great option for recording tutorials is freeseer, which happens to be a python program. Chris On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Terry Brown terry_n_br...@yahoo.comwrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:49:47 -0500 Edward K. Ream edream...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at

Re: Check out the rewritten rst3 tutorial

2013-10-26 Thread Chris George
@rst ~/leostuff/testingfile.html The path to the file is included in the @rst statement. If you do not supply a path I can only assume it goes to the directory where you saved the .leo file, but I could be wrong as I have never tried it. But I only knew that because I had read it on the actual

Re: How to debug startup of myLeoSettings...

2013-10-26 Thread Chris George
When I was trying to figure this out I remember reading something in the documentation that recommended putting only the individual nodes you wished to change into the myleoSettings.leo file, as it is read after the defaults and will take precedence. It makes for a much smaller item to

Re: This, and *only* this, can make Leo more popular

2013-10-28 Thread Chris George
Leo -- rst -- output using docutils using rst3 command -- pandoc to convert to html that LibreOffice can open correctly -- save as .odt Works for me. Chris On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Don Dwiggins ddwigg...@advpubtech.comwrote: Sudden wild idea: OpenOffice/LibreOffice have been used

Re: This, and *only* this, can make Leo more popular

2013-10-28 Thread Chris George
format as long as I keep tables and the main outline.. Is that even possible? Thanks On Monday, October 28, 2013 11:08:02 PM UTC+1, Chris George wrote: Leo -- rst -- output using docutils using rst3 command -- pandoc to convert to html that LibreOffice can open correctly -- save as .odt Works

Re: rst3 newbies, please try the rst3 tutorial

2013-10-29 Thread Chris George
The following section was unclear to me. Is the new outline node also an @rst node? And if so is it the one referred to in #2? Right now it appears that the section title will come from the original @rst node and apply to all non-rst nodes under it. To create a new section, subsection, in the

Re: rst3 newbies, please try the rst3 tutorial

2013-10-29 Thread Chris George
nodes to add text without creating a new rST section. - Use @rst-ignore nodes and @rst-ignore-tree trees to comment out text. - All other nodes create sections, subsections, etc. Chris On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Chris George technat...@gmail.com wrote: The following section

Re: rst3 newbies, please try the rst3 tutorial

2013-10-29 Thread Chris George
of writers in the world for every programmer. If you want Leo to become popular, this is a critical understanding. IMHO. Chris On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Chris George technat...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, found another instance of the same thing. I am sure that this is perfectly clear

Re: This, and *only* this, can make Leo more popular

2013-10-29 Thread Chris George
Hi Don, Having the ability to update the content of an .odt file via Leo while editing it in LibreOffice sounds like a goal. Between the two there are around 60 million users, many of whom would jump at the opportunity to try out a Outliner Plugin for their word-processor that currently lacks

Re: This, and *only* this, can make Leo more popular

2013-10-29 Thread Chris George
oops. Between LibreOffice and OpenOffice. Not the two. Thoughts first, then fingers. On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Chris George technat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Don, Having the ability to update the content of an .odt file via Leo while editing it in LibreOffice sounds like a goal

Re: This, and *only* this, can make Leo more popular

2013-10-30 Thread Chris George
Chris George technat...@gmail.com wrote: Leo -- rst -- output using docutils using rst3 command -- pandoc to convert to html that LibreOffice can open correctly -- save as .odt rst2odt --strip-comments --smart-quotes=yes prog201310.rst prog201310.odt libreoffice --headless --convert

Re: Command line option --minimize now has no effect

2013-10-30 Thread Chris George
I am running Mint 15, KDE and it works for me. Leo 4.11a3, build 6200, 2013-10-30 10:32:28 Chris On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Segundo Bob segundo...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/30/2013 09:06 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote: leo --minimized --no-plugins? EKR Now I have tried leo

Re: Command line option --minimize now has no effect

2013-10-30 Thread Chris George
Using Qt version 4.8.4 in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu Python 2.7.4 On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Chris George technat...@gmail.com wrote: I am running Mint 15, KDE and it works for me. Leo 4.11a3, build 6200, 2013-10-30 10:32:28 Chris On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Segundo Bob

Re: This, and *only* this, can make Leo more popular

2013-10-30 Thread Chris George
: On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Chris George technat...@gmail.comwrote: If a user could install OO and a Leo plugin or Leo with hooks and could access the outlining functionality from within their word processor, they would. In droves. It may turn out though, that what I am really talking about

Re: This, and *only* this, can make Leo more popular

2013-10-31 Thread Chris George
Wilkie map...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Chris George technat...@gmail.com wrote: What did you think of the other approach, of getting writers into a customized Leo with a WYSIWYG editor? I would love to have a wysiwyg mode in Leo, but think it will take

Re: This, and *only* this, can make Leo more popular

2013-11-01 Thread Chris George
AM, Chris George technat...@gmail.com wrote: Would it be too much to imagine the slickness of something like http://gingkoapp.com, but with Leo's flexibility and lack of limitations? Or is that to dream too big? :-) Chris On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Terry Brown terry_n_br

Re: Next draft of rst3 tutorial is ready for review, especially by rst3 newbies

2013-11-01 Thread Chris George
As a newbie, a bzr pull request is part of my startup script. Chris On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Edward K. Ream edream...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote: Before you and I spend a lot of time debugging Leo, please tell me

Re: rst3 newbies, please try the rst3 tutorial

2013-11-02 Thread Chris George
Not to be too picky, but I found this confusing. Is there a prior tutorial that covers some of this (things like @settings trees within documents) that should be completed before the rst3 tutorial? What is the required knowledge level of your target audience for this tutorial? Are you assuming a

Re: rst3 newbies, please try the rst3 tutorial

2013-11-02 Thread Chris George
for the tutorial or to make it very clear where it fits into the hierarchy of tutorials/documentation. People will willingly give up rather than appear stupid, especially to themselves. Chris On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 10:26 AM, duf...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, 2 November 2013 16:11:00 UTC+1, Chris

Re: rst3 newbies, please try the rst3 tutorial

2013-11-03 Thread Chris George
I went back through the website by clicking Previous Topic to find the other tutorials. I think part of why it frustrated me is that by going directly to the rst3 tutorial via an email link, I was cut adrift from the context and there were no landmarks readily available to help. Neither

Re: Two-tiered footnote system in Leo. Possible?

2013-11-04 Thread Chris George
rst has support for footnotes and citations. It also supports auto numbering. It depends whether you are using rst to markup your text or not though. And what your output format is. And whether you need the links live in the finished document or not. The flexibility of Leo for writing can be

Re: Making Leo look better out of the box

2013-11-08 Thread Chris George
On Linux the blue focus highlighting does not exist in any of the windows at start-up. The cursor starts in the body pane. Clicking into the outline window gives me the blue focus highlighting around the window, but it is persistent, it doesn't go away when I click another window. Clicking into

Re: Cloning

2013-11-09 Thread Chris George
Cloning is what drove me to Leo in the first place. There are a couple of outliners available online, as in web services, that support a variant and there are outliners for other platforms, like Windows and Mac, that have their own way of doing it, but there are no other outliners for Linux that

Persistent Layout

2013-11-09 Thread Chris George
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-qYBvTwUI4rc/Un5qAsfBRUI/CKE/AuzpWU-VmGk/s1600/layout.png

Re: Making Leo look better out of the box

2013-11-09 Thread Chris George
Terry, I am trying to understand QT Styles as they relate to the focus colour problem. Currently, the outline pane and the log pane both get the blue focus line when you hover over them. The body pane does not. The outline pane and the log pane both take on the blue focus when clicked into,

Re: @thin node ?!?

2013-11-10 Thread Chris George
From the Directives Reference: @file and @thin nodes are synonyms. Chris On Saturday, November 9, 2013 1:47:57 AM UTC-8, jqui...@gmail.com wrote: I am going through the quickstart file, to learn the basics. I came cross the reference to a @thin node, but I don't know what it is. Could

Re: Ctrl-Tab (tab-cycle-next) command

2013-11-10 Thread Chris George
The Cheat Sheet states that Ctrl-Tab performs tab-cycle-next, but the Command Reference contains the following: The indent-region (Ctrl-Tab) and unindent-region (Tab) commands shift selected lines in the body text left or right one tab position. These commands shift the entire line if any

Re: Making Leo look better out of the box

2013-11-10 Thread Chris George
Progress. Adding this to the @data qt-gui-plugin-style-sheet in myLeoSettings.leo adds the desired behaviour to the body pane. /* body pane border highlight */ LeoQTextBrowser { border: 1px solid white } LeoQTextBrowser:focus { border: 2px solid cyan } LeoQTextBrowser:hover { border: 2px

Re: Making Leo look better out of the box

2013-11-11 Thread Chris George
: On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Chris George techn...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Progress. Adding this to the @data qt-gui-plugin-style-sheet in myLeoSettings.leo adds the desired behaviour to the body pane. /* body pane border highlight */ LeoQTextBrowser { border: 1px solid white

A Question

2013-11-11 Thread Chris George
What does @@ mean at the beginning of a headline? I searched through LeoDocs.leo and found the @asis section which tells me what it does for @asis nodes, but I couldn't find a definition or explanation anywhere else to tell me what it means for all other nodes. Chris -- You received this

Re: Making Leo look better out of the box

2013-11-11 Thread Chris George
pane, it gets ignored and simply stays inert. I am going back to the qtGui.py for some more investigating. Chris On Monday, November 11, 2013 8:18:39 AM UTC-8, Terry wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:08:43 -0800 (PST) Chris George techn...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: I restored those entries

Re: Making Leo look better out of the box

2013-11-12 Thread Chris George
. Chris On Monday, November 11, 2013 8:18:39 AM UTC-8, Terry wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:08:43 -0800 (PST) Chris George techn...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: I restored those entries to leoSetting.leo. When I open myLeoSettings.leo, the outline pane has the focus. The interesting

Re: Making Leo look better out of the box

2013-11-12 Thread Chris George
, 2013 12:53:09 PM UTC-8, Terry wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:48:46 -0800 (PST) Chris George techn...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Hi Terry, I am not sure where to look next. I personally don't use any of this border highlighting, so I'm not an authority on what it's supposed to do

Re: Show us your screen shots!

2013-11-15 Thread Chris George
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-f-M_gu2N5UM/UoZawIBA7lI/CKY/vro6aaFseGo/s1600/layout.png 10pt everywhere except for 12pt in the body pane. Chris On Friday, November 15, 2013 7:14:16 AM UTC-8, Edward K. Ream wrote: It would be great to have a much wider gallery of screen shots

Re: Where do I find the most up-to-date stable version of Leo?

2013-11-17 Thread Chris George
Menu highlighting in dark_theme_0 works for me, but not in dark_theme_1. On Sunday, November 17, 2013 10:15:40 AM UTC-8, Jerry wrote: On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Terry Brown terry_...@yahoo.comjavascript: wrote: Oh that bug :-) You would need to copy the leo_dark theme 0

Re: Customizing the UI with myLeoSettings.leo

2013-11-17 Thread Chris George
It took me a while to grasp the flexibility behind the way Leo currently does settings. Reading the Configuring Leo section of the documentation about six times while experimenting with a set of settings was instructive. I can now use myLeoSettings.leo and per outline settings to great effect.

Academic Writing

2013-11-18 Thread Chris George
I have attached an outline of some ideas I have around bending Leo to my will as an academic writing platform without peer. But it will take some help from those who are actual programmers and those who know Leo best. Much of what I am after may already exist somewhere in a Leo outline or in

Re: Academic Writing

2013-11-18 Thread Chris George
On Monday, November 18, 2013 7:41:28 PM UTC-8, Jacob Peck wrote: Interesting thoughts. Here's my take on your points. Bibtex.py autolookups -- this should be trivial, and could probably be baked into the bibtex.py plugin at somepoint. The CrossRef service to convert DOI to bibtex

Re: Request: Screencast on how to make screencasts

2013-11-21 Thread Chris George
Here is an excellent tutorial on using linux software to make tutorials. What works for me is is to do a quick storyboard on a piece of paper, in essence I write out the steps of what I am going to cover. Then I record the video running this script in my head as I do the actions. Then I go

Re: Importing files and folders with Leo

2013-11-21 Thread Chris George
This was one of the very first things I needed to do on adoption of Leo. I had been organizing my work and flow using a file system tree and the Sessions function in kate. So every directory in my study tree had text files in it of assignment instructions, research notes etc. The procedure you

viewrendered.py Question

2013-11-22 Thread Chris George
I was wondering if it is currently possible to have the viewrendered pane display a view of what would be the output of an @rst node. I use an @rst node as the top of a document. I would like to be able to lock the viewrendered pane to this node, but have it display the rendered rst as if I

Re: viewrendered.py Question

2013-11-22 Thread Chris George
: On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Chris George techn...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: I was wondering if it is currently possible to have the viewrendered pane display a view of what would be the output of an @rst node. vr displays reStructuredText automatically. That's how Leo's

Re: viewrendered.py Question

2013-11-22 Thread Chris George
UTC-8, Jacob Peck wrote: On 11/22/2013 4:03 PM, Chris George wrote: I created an @auto node to read the interim rst file. This works, but still requires me to run rst3 and navigate to the @auto node. I do not seem to be able to access lock-unlock-rendering-pane, one of the commands

Re: What's in a word?

2013-11-22 Thread Chris George
minibuffer is a term used by two software projects. EMACS and Greasemonkey. Command Buffer sums it up nicely. On Friday, November 22, 2013 1:11:28 PM UTC-8, jkn wrote: Hi Edward [...] Let me ponder what to do about this. Obviously, emacs has been able to overcome this handicap ;-) But

Re: viewrendered.py Question

2013-11-22 Thread Chris George
disk. 4. Run vr-update to see the new output in context. Realtime would be better IMHO. But I am glad that I can do it at all. Chris On Friday, November 22, 2013 1:40:53 PM UTC-8, Chris George wrote: That works as far as it goes. vr-lock locks the current view of the rendering pane. In order

Re: What's in a word?

2013-11-22 Thread Chris George
:10:13 PM UTC-8, Reinhard Engel wrote: On Friday, November 22, 2013 11:02:37 PM UTC+1, Chris George wrote: minibuffer is a term used by two software projects. EMACS and Greasemonkey. Command Buffer sums it up nicely. Well, then you have to explain what a 'buffer' is - why? -- You

Re: viewrendered.py Question

2013-11-22 Thread Chris George
be aware. Take backups before you try this. Hope this helps! --Jake On 11/22/2013 7:24 PM, Chris George wrote: So it works. I open a new window for the vr pane and set it to float above all other windows. The work flow then becomes: 1. Change content, move nodes around. 2. Move

Re: viewrendered.py Question

2013-11-22 Thread Chris George
. Chris On Friday, November 22, 2013 8:03:14 PM UTC-8, Chris George wrote: Thank-you so much. I will let you know how it works out. It is great to see a practical example of scripting Leo. I'll save it as a snippet right now and modify it and run it on a copy of my data. Chris On Friday

Re: viewrendered.py Question

2013-11-22 Thread Chris George
-8, Jacob Peck wrote: I assume it worked then? I don't use rst, so I couldn't really test it. Just went on a hunch ;) If so, glad to help :) --Jake On 11/22/2013 11:11 PM, Chris George wrote: Thank-you Jacob. That is so helpful. And perfect timing. I am playing with final layouts

Re: viewrendered.py Question

2013-11-22 Thread Chris George
the one you specify. Let me know if this still doesn't work. --Jake On 11/22/2013 11:32 PM, Chris George wrote: Here is what it gives me on running the script. I followed the sequence exactly. I was looking at your script and I don't see the Refresh From Disk step. Is that part

Re: viewrendered.py Question

2013-11-22 Thread Chris George
says that it can't find your @rst node, I think. --Jake On 11/22/2013 11:55 PM, Chris George wrote: No @rst or @slides nodes in selected tree done exception executing script AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'isDirty' line 457: #@+node:ekr

Re: Per folder settings - where?

2013-11-23 Thread Chris George
Reading through the Customizing Leo document I think what is meant is that I can have a myLeoSettings.leo file in my ~/.leo directory for my overall personal settings, but I can also place a myLeoSettings.leo file in a directory where the file I am working on resides and have those settings

Re: Video: How to install and use mod_http plugin

2013-11-23 Thread Chris George
I installed this a couple of days ago and it worked for me. I came back to it today to try the One Tab functionality and it throws this error. And I cannot get it to work at all. ** isPython3: False Leo 4.11 final, build 6367, 2013-11-23 06:21:51 Python 2.7.4, qt version 4.8.4 linux2 setting

Re: Video: How to install and use mod_http plugin

2013-11-23 Thread Chris George
It still bookmarks individual pages properly, just fails on the onetab page. Chris On Saturday, November 23, 2013 3:40:50 PM UTC-8, wgw wrote: Works for me -- Thanks! (Videos make great documentation.) No need to change it in any way; getting it done and up online is the only real

Re: Video: How to install and use mod_http plugin

2013-11-23 Thread Chris George
Thanks Fidel, that works great now. Chris On Saturday, November 23, 2013 3:56:40 PM UTC-8, Fidel N wrote: Thanks for the video Glad this was helpful. It still bookmarks individual pages properly, just fails on the onetab page. The javascript text changed, so you should have created a

Re: Video: How to install and use mod_http plugin

2013-11-23 Thread Chris George
It seems there is a limit to how many open tabs it can deal with. Do we know what that number is? I was trying to have it deal with 40 open tabs. I tried it with 3 and it worked great. Chris On Saturday, November 23, 2013 4:45:31 PM UTC-8, Chris George wrote: Oops, no it didn't work

Re: Video: How to install and use mod_http plugin

2013-11-23 Thread Chris George
was on the wrong page. I have updated the javascript. How many tabs will it handle? Chris On Saturday, November 23, 2013 4:42:29 PM UTC-8, Chris George wrote: Thanks Fidel, that works great now. Chris On Saturday, November 23, 2013 3:56:40 PM UTC-8, Fidel N wrote: Thanks for the video Glad

Re: Video: How to install and use mod_http plugin

2013-11-23 Thread Chris George
I isolated it to or . If either of them exist in the title of the page, the script crashes. Chris On Saturday, November 23, 2013 4:56:27 PM UTC-8, Fidel N wrote: The error you are getting is not related to the number of pages but to the encoding of the name on some of the pages. For

Re: computeLeadingWhitespaceWidth in leoGlobals.py

2013-11-24 Thread Chris George
What a useful addition, Fidel. I don't know how many times I have caught myself looking for those functions on a right click. Chris On Sunday, November 24, 2013 11:00:34 AM UTC-8, Fidel N wrote: How can we suggest our optimizations into bzr? I made changes on leopluggins.leo and now I can

Toggle Split Direction

2013-12-05 Thread Chris George
I started my day this morning by trying to toggle the split direction using the window menu. I normally do not do this so I was surprised when I received the following error. File /home/chris/Working/leo/leo-editor/leo/core/leoCommands.py, line 545, in doCommand val = command(event)

Re: Advice: add a default shortcut for Paste node as clone

2013-12-09 Thread Chris George
Ctrl-Shift-C on source node, navigate to destination and Alt-o-t to paste as clone. I am trying to do as much as possible with keys rather than mouse. I find it distracting. :-) Chris On Monday, December 9, 2013 11:15:23 AM UTC-8, Fidel N wrote: I would find this useful when I want to copy

Re: UI Principle 6: Recovery from mistakes

2013-12-10 Thread Chris George
Kate does this as well. I actually rely on it as part of my workflow in creating bibtex entries. Chris On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 9:55:07 AM UTC-8, Jacob Peck wrote: On 12/10/2013 12:24 PM, Fidel N wrote: Its never intuitive to know who is the boss, meaning, if I edit a file outside

Re: UI Principle 3: Recognition over recall

2013-12-12 Thread Chris George
:44 PM UTC-8, Terry wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 07:27:51 -0800 (PST) Chris George techn...@gmail.com javascript: 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

Re: An experiment: The basics of Leo screencast will use captions instead of narration

2013-12-23 Thread Chris George
The place where cut/copy/paste do not work the way that I expected the first time I tried was selecting more than one node and copying, cutting and pasting them to a different place in the tree. Only the last node in the list actually makes the trip, my expectation was to be able to select

Re: An experiment: The basics of Leo screencast will use captions instead of narration

2013-12-27 Thread Chris George
I use a Ducky mechanical keyboard. It has media controls printed on F1 - F7, then keyboard specific functions on F8-F12 (Programmable sets, brighten/dim keycaps) What are these standard operations shown on typical keyboards that you speak of? I have been using this keyboard for over a year now

Re: An experiment: The basics of Leo screencast will use captions instead of narration

2013-12-27 Thread Chris George
on them as the visual cues will come from the template rather than the keyboard itself. Then you would be free to assign the F keys to whatever functions make sense for Leo. Chris On Friday, December 27, 2013 8:05:57 AM UTC-8, Edward K. Ream wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Chris George

Re: Impossible to use alt-codes in body editor?

2014-02-04 Thread Chris George
I am using Leo on a Linux box. In web browsers and word processors I can use the shortcuts to get unicode characters like Δ. (This is created by holding down Ctrl-Shift, typing the letter u, releasing Ctrl-Shift, typing the 4 character code and hitting enter or space. This doesn't work in text

Re: The new @auto project is dead

2014-02-11 Thread Chris George
Hi Edward, It has been very interesting watching your process throughout your efforts to make @auto the tool to incorporate Leo into collaborative environments. I have only one observation that may be of value. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something,

Re: How is the move to git going for you?

2014-02-14 Thread Chris George
As a user, the change was simple. I updated the script that pulls the latest from the repository at boot time on my workstation and it has been smooth sailing. I love the new Build numbers. :-) Chris On Friday, February 14, 2014 9:04:02 AM UTC-8, Fidel N wrote: My feeling is that I will be

Re: Working on the VR2 plugin

2014-03-01 Thread Chris George
Hello, In the @enabled-plugins I changed viewrendered to viewrendered2, both in the Global and Personal settings. The viewrendered2 window loads, all of the functionality is apparent. But when I attempt to view an @html node, I receive the folllowing: hook failed: select2, bound method

Edit window changed to italics

2014-04-05 Thread Chris George
Hello, I typically work with a split editor window. Today I snatched a bit of italicized text from Firefox and pasted it into a document. Imagine my surprise when the text in the entire document changed to italics. So I tested a bit after saving and exiting and restarting Leo. If I paste into

Layout Menu

2014-05-24 Thread Chris George
Hello, I have a couple of questions. 1. Is there a better way to access the layout menu than trying repeatedly to right click on the narrow bit of border between windows? 2. Is the a way to save these setting, to make them persistent across sessions? 3. Is it just me or does everyone get the

Re: Layout Menu

2014-05-24 Thread Chris George
Thanks Terry, Is there a way to increase the thickness of the clickable border? Chris On Saturday, May 24, 2014 9:53:17 AM UTC-7, Terry wrote: On Sat, 24 May 2014 11:37:20 -0500 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor leo-e...@googlegroups.com javascript: wrote: Just because it's easy, I'm going

Re: Layout Menu

2014-05-24 Thread Chris George
-0700 (PDT) Chris George techn...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Thanks Terry, Is there a way to increase the thickness of the clickable border? myLeoSettings.leo @settings @data qt-gui-user-style-sheet QSplitter::handle:horizontal { width: 20px; } QSplitter

Recent Errors

2014-06-07 Thread Chris George
Hello, Over the last couple of days I have been getting the following error at start-up: hook failed: after-create-leo-frame, function onCreate at 0x3bad668, leo.plugins.leoscreen Traceback (most recent call last): File /home/chris/Working/leo/leo-editor/leo/core/leoPlugins.py, line 336, in

Re: Recent Errors

2014-06-07 Thread Chris George
Hi Terry, That explains it. I just moved from Mint 16 KDE to Chakra and haven't finished setting up. Chris On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 9:32 AM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor leo-editor@googlegroups.com wrote: On Sat, 7 Jun 2014 06:59:05 -0700 (PDT) Chris George technat...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Installing Leo Mint

2014-06-25 Thread Chris George
HI Dufriz, I have moved on and am using Chakra Linux, but installing Leo was pretty easy. Install the version of python you want, then install pyqt. Then install git. mkdir leo cd leo https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor.git I use a script to start leo. #!/bin/bash cd /leo/leo-editor

Re: menus and focus change, linux in particular

2014-07-17 Thread Chris George
All is well here. KDELibs Version 4.13.1 Leo 4.11 final, build a67bdbf405c1 (branch: master), 2014-06-07 12:43:49 Python 2.7.6, qt version 4.8.5 linux2 64-bit Chris On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 9:38:32 PM UTC-7, Terry wrote: If you see any odd behavior with menus and or focus, please let

Sometimes it just pays to ask.

2014-08-06 Thread Chris George
I would like to be able to have a certain set of windows open in a certain position with certain content every time I open my Leo file (I only use one file to hold everything). I surmise that a script may be involved, as one of the certain windows is a viewrendered2 pane, locked to a certain

Re: Sometimes it just pays to ask.

2014-08-06 Thread Chris George
, though. There's no straight-forward way that I can see of grabbing a vr2 widget from c... --Jake On 8/6/2014 2:06 PM, Chris George wrote: I would like to be able to have a certain set of windows open in a certain position with certain content every time I open my Leo file (I only use one

Re: Sometimes it just pays to ask.

2014-08-06 Thread Chris George
11:06:36 -0700 (PDT) Chris George techn...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: I would like to be able to have a certain set of windows open in a certain position with certain content every time I open my Leo file (I only use one file to hold everything). I surmise that a script may

Re: Sometimes it just pays to ask.

2014-08-06 Thread Chris George
Recreating the vr pane via the split menu/Insert displays the same behaviour. It is only if I select the @url node and then create the vr pane via the Plugins menu am I able to hit refresh and have it display. Chris On Wednesday, August 6, 2014 2:51:22 PM UTC-7, Chris George wrote: I think I

Re: Initial node tagging support -- functionally complete

2014-08-06 Thread Chris George
Thank-you for this. Chris On Wednesday, August 6, 2014 12:47:45 PM UTC-7, Jacob Peck wrote: Hi all, I've put the last bit of planned functionality into the Tagging UI (nodetags.py plugin) today. It's available in the latest commit. Here's the new docstring: Provides node

Re: A quick-and-dirty tag API can now be had with the nodetags.py plugin

2014-08-13 Thread Chris George
Have a look at this. http://piggydb.net/ When in brainstorming mode, or when writing blog posts, I run this in a vr pane within Leo, simply because it is less distracting than running it in a separate window. Chris On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 7:46:39 AM UTC-7, Dufriz wrote: Wonderful. As

Re: A quick-and-dirty tag API can now be had with the nodetags.py plugin

2014-08-13 Thread Chris George
. Chris On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 10:06:13 AM UTC-7, Dufriz wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Chris George techn...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: http://piggydb.net/ When in brainstorming mode, or when writing blog posts, I run this in a vr pane within Leo, simply because it is less

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