Re: Is something basic missing from Leo?

2010-08-03 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Here's a python free example of how cool leo is, unfortunately only really > makes sense if you do a lot of interactive SQL, although of course there are > similar CLI based workflows.  Anyway, I've combined leo buttons with leo > stickynotes and the leoscreen plugin I wrote for bodytext / she

Re: Is something basic missing from Leo?

2010-08-03 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Absence of > documentation, or old/poor > documentation is a hassle. Yes. And is perhaps the most consistent and most often true critique of open source projects of all stripes and generations (and a good many proprietary systems too). In short, documentation is hard, good docs doubly so. It's

Re: Is something basic missing from Leo?

2010-08-03 Thread Matt Wilkie
> 1. I can't/wont' improve documentation in general.  I have to know > what it is you want to know.  Why not just ask?  I typically answer > question in a timely fashion, and my answers could form the basis of > documentation that targets just your concerns. yes, this is very true. Thank you (and

Re: Is something basic missing from Leo?

2010-08-03 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Simply put, there are too many websites. Too many places to look for > documentation, a.k.a help. Too many places to find out what's > happening and where Leo might, or might not, be going. Prune them all > except one I say. Or burn the field and plant a new one. All of the existing services Leo

Re: Is something basic missing from Leo?

2010-08-03 Thread Matt Wilkie
> The growing trend to make screencasts of things which are more easily > explained in text drives me nuts. /matt nods enthusiasticly. At the very least provide transcripts (or use Youtube and leverage their automatic transcript feature). -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Places to put Leonine gems

2010-08-04 Thread Matt Wilkie
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote: > I've been following the recent threads about documentation and other > newbie issues with great interest. The suggestions are sometimes > contradictory.  In this kind of discussion fluidity and contradictions > are *good* things :-) comfort

Re: markdown plugin

2010-08-05 Thread Matt Wilkie
[Edward] > Yes, it would be possible, but this is the first I have heard of > markdown, and rST seems more than adequate for what we do here.  So > it's not going to happen from me.  What you do is your own affair :-) FYI: Markdown "allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain te

Re: Revising Chapter 4

2010-08-06 Thread Matt Wilkie
This is a great improvement. Thanks Tom and Edward! > We can test this point of view now.  Chapter 4, newly-renamed to be > "Leo's Reference", is now up on Leo's web site at: thank you > for the Tutorial, Glossary and Reference.  Using the index is now the > easiest way to find what you want now

Re: Revising Chapter 4

2010-08-06 Thread Matt Wilkie
>> Except that from http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/directives.html >> there is no link to the index! > > There is for me.  It's at the top-right corner. oh, so it is. a little too unobtrusive perhaps or maybe I'm the one being obtuse. :) -matt -- You received this message because you are

Re: chapters : Why ?

2010-08-17 Thread Matt Wilkie
Thank you Ville. I finally get what they're for. This could be a mini tutorial in the docs. -matt On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Ville M. Vainio wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Norbert > wrote: > >> I have a question concerning chapters : What is their purpose ? Can >> someone giv

Re: Docs and installer should have top priority

2010-08-17 Thread Matt Wilkie
> I don't mind thinking of Leo in that way, but I'm not going to package > Python with Leo. For anybody who does decide to pick up the challenge of improving the installer: It is perfectly reasonable for a new user to get the message "Sorry, python not found, go get it from ..." and to stop insta

Re: Naive Leo impressions

2010-08-17 Thread Matt Wilkie
taa, thanks for sharing your experiences and thought processes. Many of them mirror my own. > I believe my question was specific and clear, but if it was not, then > I obviously do not know what/how to ask in a way to get an answer. > I've seen threads in this forum that end with, "if not, please

Re: Naive Leo impressions

2010-08-17 Thread Matt Wilkie
>> Having these menus populated with options which don't matter and aren't >> used doesn't give me a good first impression. > > Leo's File menu is quite ordinary, imo.  Leo manipulates data: Import > and Export menus are reasonable.  I'm not going to eliminate the > Read/Write menu because it clutt

Re: Using Bazaar to run latest development version instead of latest stable version [was: Re: nav_qt not working]

2010-08-18 Thread Matt Wilkie
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:37 PM, taa, Leo Newbie wrote: >> I encourage you to start using the bzr trunk instead of the stable >> version. > > Attempting to install Bazaar Please don't start here, or you will lose hair. It is much easier to grab a daily snapshot from http://www.greygreen.org/leo/

Re: Using Bazaar to run latest development version instead of latest stable version [was: Re: nav_qt not working]

2010-08-18 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Are there any Bazaar Explorer 2.1 users out there who could help a > poor Leo newbie get the latest development version before he pulls out > his last hairs, and while he still only just =contemplates= drinking > hard liquor? :DDD I'm only a few hours ahead of you on the Learning Bazaar Explorer

Re: Deconstructing Screenbook Maker

2010-08-18 Thread Matt Wilkie
> The question is, is there a real advantage to creating the slideshow > pages automatically?  Perhaps it would be just as easy to use > Screenbook Maker? I venture that if Joe Orr had been able to use Leo to create this particular screenbook it would not be so far out of date. Someone else would

Re: Leo vs Screenbook Maker *and* story-boarding the tutorials

2010-08-18 Thread Matt Wilkie
It occurs to me this might dovetail, a little bit, with the recent requests to support S5 output (http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/s5-intro.html) -matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to leo-edi.

Re: Deconstructing Screenbook Maker

2010-08-18 Thread Matt Wilkie
>> I venture that if Joe Orr had been able to use Leo to create this >> particular screenbook it would not be so far out of date. Someone else >> would have regenerated it to match Leo's development pace (assuming >> the source was shared). > > That's the dream.  However, full automation looks infe

Re: Leo vs Screenbook Maker *and* story-boarding the tutorials

2010-08-18 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Is it possible to devise a .css so that a element > creates both a toc entry and the body of a slide? I found a page about Instiki S5 which supports dual displays, slides on one screen and presenter notes on the other. Can't test it from here though, I'm on a laptop. http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/

Re: Leo vs Screenbook Maker *and* story-boarding the tutorials

2010-08-19 Thread Matt Wilkie
> When I checked out the screenbooks, I didn't necessarily > use it as a learning tool. In was marketing for me - it showed me that > Leo is cool. Yes, me too. Though I may have used it for learning if it were up to date. > I would have got exactly the same thought if someone had > made a screenc

turn duplicates into clones?

2010-08-19 Thread Matt Wilkie
I'm attempting to refactor several python files with numerous of copy-n-paste duplicated functions into a module. Is there some way Leo can search through node trees of "@file foo.py" and "@file bar.py" and make the duplicated functions clones of each other? thanks, -matt -- You received this m

Re: turn duplicates into clones?

2010-08-19 Thread Matt Wilkie
> I suspect Matt just wanted the clones as a way of visualizing the duplicate > functions that have already been created by copy-n-paste (by someone else, no > doubt :-). yes and yes, thanks for clarifying. (though I certainly have a significant collection of my own copy+paste snippets, before I

Re: HOWTO: implement drag drop for Qt

2010-08-30 Thread Matt Wilkie
> It should also support dropping files from file manager (perhaps creating > @path / @edit / @auto nodes?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/leo-editor/+bug/568646 :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email t

Re: HOWTO: implement drag drop for Qt

2010-09-01 Thread Matt Wilkie
just wanted to say that DnD from windows explorer to Leo is working just fine for me, and that I am right now a very happy camper. Thank you! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to leo-edi...@googlegro

Re: Docs and installer should have top priority

2010-09-02 Thread Matt Wilkie
>> but now that you bring this on Windows I have >> remembered PortableApps at www.portableapps.com I have tested with people ... > This could be very good. Thanks for this link. A PortableApps version of Leo would be very cool and emminently usable, but it's not likely to be an easy path. They do

Re: Callouts with Inkscape update

2010-09-06 Thread Matt Wilkie
> (*) which makes you wonder how they distribute their extensions with the > Windows version of Inkscape.  I suspect they distribute python with inkscape > in a subdirectory of the inkscape directory... :-) Appears to be so, my windows PortableInkscape 0.48 folder has a python sub-tree occupying

Re: rst project of interest

2010-09-10 Thread Matt Wilkie
> ... I think is fine to answer all this > old mails when a question like the previous emerge on catching up, but > please tell me if there is any better way. Personally I enjoy having old/forgotten gem of an idea or discussion lifted out of the strata and given some fresh air and sunshine periodi

Re: A1 may be delayed again

2010-09-13 Thread Matt Wilkie
>> In your absence, can someone be assigned to monitor first-posts from >> new users that are held for approval > > I'll check my mail and do this as needed.  If somebody else want > permission to do this, please ask. sure, I'll help monitor first posts etc. -matt -- You received this message b

Re: LEO file association on windows vista

2010-09-19 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Uttara.ca seems hacked. Now you get sexual products propaganda on this link. yech! Not hacked. I let the domain lapse and moved my stuff to http://www.maphew.com/How_To/Installing_Leo_Editor_on_Windows. It never occurred to me someone else would pick up the name. It's not like I ever got a lot o

Re: Macroes in leo

2010-09-22 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Edward, I looked at http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/commands.html ...just in case you missed it: don't expect a reply for a couple of weeks as Edward is on holidays. cheers, -matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post

Re: There is any way to enable multitab qt interface from myLeoSettings.leo ?

2010-09-25 Thread Matt Wilkie
> If your goal is to avoid running an app with a command line argument, > you can wrap the whole call into a shell script like this: A windows version might look like (all on one line): @start /b "Leo" c:\python26\pythonw.exe "C:\local\apps\leo-editor\launchLeo.py" --gui=qttabs %* Save as Leo

Re: can't open in external editor

2010-09-30 Thread Matt Wilkie
>> Is there some setting I need to adjust? I checked, SciTE is on my path >> (and it's in the Leo context menu of course). Thanks for any help. > > Try specifying the full path to scite.exe as your external editor. Where is the external editor setting kept? I searched through leoSettings.leo and m

Re: can't open in external editor

2010-09-30 Thread Matt Wilkie
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:10 PM, zpcspm wrote: > On Oct 1, 3:02 am, Matt Wilkie wrote: >> Where is the external editor setting kept? > > LEO_EDITOR environment variable works for me (Linux). > > See guessExternalEditor() in leoGlobals.py Thanks. I knew that at one tim

Re: can't open in external editor

2010-10-01 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Any other comments? I don't like needing to create LEO_EDITOR environment variable for this customisation. It is handy that EDITOR is optionally used as I recall needing that same var for another program at one time, ipython perhaps? If the result "g.app.db['LEO_EDITOR'] = 'scite' " is bound to

Re: can't open in external editor

2010-10-01 Thread Matt Wilkie
> If the result "g.app.db['LEO_EDITOR'] = 'scite' " is bound to [alt-v] Seems to broken: {{{ exception executing script AttributeError: cacher instance has no attribute '__setitem__' line 2: #...@+node:newHeadline * line 3: g.app.db['LEO_EDITOR'] = 'scite' line 4: #...@-l

Re: corrupted leo file?

2010-10-04 Thread Matt Wilkie
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Graham Chiu wrote: > Found the issue.   Leo was always opening the file minimized.  Windows > prevented me from alt-tabbing to it while minimized. > Very bizzare.  I had to move my mouse over the small window ( selecting it > as is normal would not work ), right cli

May I Flatter Leo?

2010-10-05 Thread Matt Wilkie
Hi Edward, I'd like to contribute to Leo beyond the odd bug report and suggestions for the docs. Courtesy of Raphael Hertzog[1] of debian dpkg fame I've discovered a micropayment system which just might work, www.flattr.com. How it works: Flattr users pay a small monthly fee, at any level (defaul

bzr error "no such file"

2010-10-08 Thread Matt Wilkie
Hi All, I just tried to update leo on an XP Home laptop and am getting the following error. The name of the file changes with every run but the error is the same. {{{ bzr pull --overwrite Using saved parent location: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leo-editor-team/leo-editor/trunk/ bzr: ERROR: No su

Re: bzr error "no such file"

2010-10-08 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Has it been some time since you pulled on that local branch?  I think there > might have been a glitch in the system around 2010-08-05, I had to pull fresh > back then.  I don't think it was necessarily bzr's fault. I'm at r3397, sept 15. There's been some other wierdness and crashing going on

Re: The first real slides are here

2010-10-09 Thread Matt Wilkie
> The first 5 slides in the "What is Leo" slideshow are at: > http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/slides/what-is-leo/slide-001.html This is looking great! I know it's early to make content comments when only the first 5 of 23 are complete, but while it's ripe in my mind: I find the arrow in Sli

Re: The first real slides are here

2010-10-09 Thread Matt Wilkie
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Matt Wilkie wrote: >> The first 5 slides in the "What is Leo" slideshow are at: >> http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/slides/what-is-leo/slide-001.html bug: there is no link to escape from the slideshow. [Leo v4.7-final documentation]

Re: bzr error "no such file"

2010-10-09 Thread Matt Wilkie
(Status: resolved. Posting to the list in case it happens to someone else...) ok, this is getting very wierd now. I've verified it has nothing to do with my quirky laptop. The leo-editor branch is in a directory I have synced to my linux computer. I get exactly the same file does not exist error f

Re: Slideshows: a collapse in complexity

2010-10-14 Thread Matt Wilkie
[aside] I just want to say Edward, that I appreciate the way you "talk out loud" as you work, commenting on and extending your own thoughts as readily as others. While I can't say exactly what I learn from it, I do get insight and value from it. -matt -- You received this message because you are

Re: The step-by-step tutorial is here

2010-10-20 Thread Matt Wilkie
Step:13 - Please also include keyboard command for Redo. I keep pressing Ctrl-Y, which is redo in MS-Office but is paste in Leo, which screws up my undo/redo stack. Eventually I'll get myself retrained. I just think it would be good to alert new users ahead of time. idea: a [play] button that wil

Re: Leo 4.8 a1 now available

2010-11-01 Thread Matt Wilkie
Install report, Windows 7 x64. Existing pythons in C:\Python25 and C:\Python26. Existing Leo installed in C:\ocal\apps\leo-editor, from bazaar. License agreement page: I'd say "X/MIT style license" at the top. The purpose of this is so people who are familiar don't need to read through it in detai

Re: [Bug 670744] Re: add a setting to put inter-def code in its own node

2010-11-05 Thread Matt Wilkie
>... I also want to get to modified visual presentation of @ nodes, so >instead of > > �...@edit /mnt/usr1/home/tbr...(cut off by window width) > �...@edit /mnt/usr1/home/tbr > �...@edit /mnt/usr1/home/tbr > > I see > >   some_file.py >   some_file.css >   some_file.js > > which becomes @edit /mnt

Re: Contrib: Projects/AppEngine

2010-11-08 Thread Matt Wilkie
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Edward K. Ream wrote: > This post announces a new contribution in the contrib branch. > > The Projects/AppEngine folder shows how to use Leo to develop Google > App Engine apps. This sounds very cool. thanks Edward, I look forward to trying this out. -matt -- Yo

best practice for renaming @file nodes?

2010-11-09 Thread Matt Wilkie
What is best practice for renaming @file nodes? Currently I do this, which is clunky buy works: In Leo: - change '@file foobar.py' to '@file barfoo.py' - save In file system: - delete barfoo.py In source code control: - rename foobar.py barfoo.py In Leo: - save again Is this what yo

Re: Why I love Leo

2010-11-12 Thread Matt Wilkie
Thank you for taking the time to explain. Insight into your process is more valuable to me at this stage in my learning-to-program development than what or how script X does Y. My Leo projects don't involve programming Leo itself, so when I look at plugin code it's difficult for me to translate tha

Re: A new command: extract-python-method

2010-11-14 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Select a range of text, the first line of which starts with 'def foo > (...)' > > Do alt-x extract-python-method (or ctrl-p if you are repeating the > command). Thank you for this. I thought I just hadn't stumbled across the right command/keystrokes for this yet, it never occurred to me that it

Re: A new command: extract-python-method

2010-11-15 Thread Matt Wilkie
>> How is this different from the `extract` command?  Other than that the >> extract command has you type the node name in the body text before selecting >> the text to be extracted. > > Right.  It's almost the same, but it is very annoying, imo, to have to > do something by hand that can be done

Re: Drupal development is good...

2010-11-16 Thread Matt Wilkie
>> i ask because when I have goofed and PHP displays the file and line >> number, it would be good to be able to have a way of going to line >> X... > > goto-global-line command?  Bound to alt-G by default I think. THANK YOU! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Leo 4.8 rc1 released

2010-11-16 Thread Matt Wilkie
http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/ still reports "Leo v4.6-b1 documentation" at top left, though it does change to "Leo v4.8 documentation" after clicking on a link. -matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this grou

Re: Important improvements to @url nodes

2010-11-27 Thread Matt Wilkie
> These improvements allow Leo to be what it should have been a long > time ago: the world's best organizer of url's.  My typical usage is:: > > @url fizbatz: short description of fizbatz (headline) > http://fizbatz.org (body text) > @language rest > Why I care about fizbatz. Thanks for this. :)

Re: leo aware vim syntax highlighting

2010-12-04 Thread Matt Wilkie
phew/leo-editor/stuff/files cheers, -matt On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote: > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Matt Wilkie wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I've taken a crack at creating a syntax file for vim which demphasizes >> Leo's metadata ch

Re: leo aware vim syntax highlighting

2010-12-05 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Why not put it to the "contrib" branch? because "You cannot upload to this branch. Members of The Leo editor team can upload to this branch." :) -matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to leo-edi

keystroke for 'Edit @file in $EDITOR'

2010-12-07 Thread Matt Wilkie
I'd like to set a keyboard shortcut for the right-click context menu item "Edit @file foobar.py in gvim". Searching through LeoSettings.leo I see the setting for opening the current node in external editor is "cm-external-editor = Alt-v", but I need to see the whole external file, complete with sen

Re: keystroke for 'Edit @file in $EDITOR'

2010-12-07 Thread Matt Wilkie
> I believe it would be reasonable to add a check to cm-external-editor > command implementation in contextmenu.py, and open the whole file in > the editor if we are at @ node. this would be my preference. > Look at how checking for availability of context menu entry is done in > the plugin whic

Re: keystroke for 'Edit @file in $EDITOR'

2010-12-07 Thread Matt Wilkie
> contextmenu.py oops. you did say that in the previous paragraph. sorry. Looking at "refresh_rclick" in contextmenu.py I see @file is not mentioned while @thin is. Is that an oversight or by design? --- I can see that "openwith_rclick" and "editnode_rclick" are the functions that define the co

Re: leo aware vim syntax highlighting

2010-12-12 Thread Matt Wilkie
> I'm just curious about this deemphasizing. How you see the normal comments >  in python versus the comments of Leo metadata inside this Python file. For > example if we have: > > # This is a test file of python that has some commented code > #@ > > This two lines should be seen different in vim u

file association on Ubuntu

2010-12-12 Thread Matt Wilkie
On my ubuntu machines (one workstation, one laptop) I've "installed" Leo from bzr*. How do I setup file association with Nautilus so I can double-click on .leo files and open them with Leo? and are there any other niceties I miss out on by installing this way? thanks, -- -matt -- You received

Re: leo aware vim syntax highlighting

2010-12-12 Thread Matt Wilkie
> That's the theory anyway. For some reason it doesn't work with html > files, though it did at an earlier point in my experiments. A new > update is forthcoming which should make it a little more reliable. A new version (r7) has been uploaded to https://code.launchpad.net/~maphew/leo-editor/stuff

Re: Beefing up the headline editing mode

2011-01-10 Thread Matt Wilkie
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:54 AM, tfer wrote: > I'd like Leo to notice that a headline still says "New Headline" and > entered edit mode automatically. great idea! > It may be just me, but I like to get > the mode in the right place before I name it, which means I often > create a node, move it r

Re: Beefing up the headline editing mode

2011-01-10 Thread Matt Wilkie
> > An "insert child node" key binding would help with this, perhaps > > [ctrl-ins] or [ctrl-shift-i]. > > I'm not sure we want all that cognitive overload of zillions of bindings. > > ctrl + i ctrl + r is simple and elegant - and it would be the only > thing necessary if edit state was preserved.

Re: import IPython.ipapi fails

2011-01-12 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Ipython broke compatibility with old stuff at 0.10, so the last > ipython directly supported by Leo is 0.9.1. ... > Obviously I need to keep on using IPython, so I'm maintaining > ipython0.9+ version: > > https://code.launchpad.net/~ipython-dev/ipython/ipython09-legacymaint Is this still true? a

Re: File association not working in WinXP

2011-02-01 Thread Matt Wilkie
Appending "%*" to the command only makes sense in a batch file where more than one parameter might be passed. In the context of 2x-clicking a file in Windows Explorer there is only ever one parameter passed, the name of the file clicked. In any case for file association only "%1" works. Set up th

Re: Persistent "searches" and clones

2011-02-02 Thread Matt Wilkie
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Edward K. Ream > In another thread I said that persistent searches are an interesting > alternative to clones for the purpose of creating clones. ... > These are merely the first thoughts that come to mind.  Any other > ideas or comments? The best implementation I'

choose python version for @file

2011-02-02 Thread Matt Wilkie
When I run Leo from within py3, but am writing a script for python 2.6 the log pane issues syntax errors only applicable to py3: {{{ Syntax error in: @file xxx.py 19: 20: before = gp.ListFields(fc) 21: after = get_dissolve_fields(fc) 22:* print 'before:\t', before

What does @ignore do?

2011-02-07 Thread Matt Wilkie
What does @ignore do? How does one use it? I tried putting it in the body text of an @file node but all that seems to happen is an extra blank line is added to the external file. A thread from 2009 (http://tinyurl.com/4mmb526) indicates it might be intended for what I want, temporarily exclude or

Re: What does @ignore do?

2011-02-08 Thread Matt Wilkie
Thank you Steve. You have a gift for clarity. I'm not new here, though not being software developer puts me a little out of place. I stubbornly remain because even though I don't understand a lot of what's going, there are clearly very interesting things happening here. So from my vantage, you're

Re: leo aware vim syntax highlighting

2011-02-08 Thread Matt Wilkie
> A new version (r7) has been uploaded to > https://code.launchpad.net/~maphew/leo-editor/stuff. Now merged with lp:~leo-editor-team/leo-editor/contrib. This is the first time I've merged branches, so may have not done it correctly, please vet. cheers, -- -matt -- You received this message be

Re: leo aware vim syntax highlighting

2011-02-08 Thread Matt Wilkie
> The .leo file loads correctly, so all looks good.  It would be cleaner > if the .leo file were in the vim-syntax folder... done. I also found and fixed a serious mistake that caused data loss: I was using clones and @file nodes to mirror the vim syntax files from the project working directory t

Re: Python versions

2011-02-17 Thread Matt Wilkie
> If that's an interest, I could go through and make such conversions, along > with other 2.6 --> 2.5 modifications (while still maintaining 3+). I personally have 2.5, 2.6 & 3.1 installed right now on my main machine. v2.5 is a requirement because the applications of my "real job" must use it. v

Re: LEO as web app

2011-02-23 Thread Matt Wilkie
> http://code.google.com/p/pyjamas/ This appears to be the current home http://pyjs.org/ cheers, -matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this gr

Re: Two important posts about a new lint

2011-03-29 Thread Matt Wilkie
> In the last few days I have started thinking about a new kind of > lint.  I have started posting on the Leo and Pylint google group: > http://groups.google.com/group/leo-and-pylint from that thread, thanks for this: QQQ Leo uses the following naming convention for objects, used throughout the c

Re: Two important posts about a new lint

2011-03-29 Thread Matt Wilkie
> It's staring you right in the face.  See leoPy.leo, the top-level 'Code' node. actually leoPyRef.leo, on my machine, but thank you. :) -matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@google

Re: Text size zoom?

2011-04-01 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Can the text zoom be changed on the fly? nope, but it's on the wishlist :) https://bugs.launchpad.net/leo-editor/+bug/363145 -matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com

Re: ANN: rclick menu can now mkdir paths

2011-04-11 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Now, if you right click on @path that doesn't exist, you can create > the directory from inside leo. thanks Ville! -- -matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. To

Re: Progress reg. sqlite storage for leo document

2011-04-11 Thread Matt Wilkie
> I am creating a sqlite storage support for leo. Motivation for this is > that I'm going to do a mobile client that needs to be able to handle > large leo documents in restricted amount of memory; xml file + reading > all nodes to memory at one time doesn't scale for that. My first thought on rea

%HOMEDRIVE% not expanded

2011-04-12 Thread Matt Wilkie
Hi all, I have leo checked out from bzr in a Dropbox folder that is automatically synched across my machines. This way I'm running the same version everywhere without having to think about it. I've been doing this for about 6 months without a problem. Yesterday I set up a new machine at home, run

Re: %HOMEDRIVE% not expanded

2011-04-12 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Yesterday I set up a new machine at home, running win7, and now this > morning at work Leo is no longer expanding the %HOMEDRIVE%HOMEPATH% > variables properly: Correction! WINDOWS was not expanding the var: C:\> set h HOME=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% HOMEDRIVE=C: HOMEPATH=\Users\mwilkie

Re: Progress reg. sqlite storage for leo document

2011-04-12 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Database is likely to have great benefits in > indexing, speed of random access as well as overall speed (esp. > inserting new nodes, deleting old ones without rewriting the whole > file). ...The killer is memory use when looking up data. ...exactly the problems vtd-xml purports to solve, but I

Re: For Newbies: Pay attention when using LEO for managing a Pyhton project

2011-04-12 Thread Matt Wilkie
> So far so good. But, where one needs to pay attention is when running > a Python script within LEO (typing CTRL-B on a node executes the > script contained in the body of that node). The Python that runs the > script is the same as the Python running LEO. It is not another > instance. I have a p

Re: Font size in Leo

2011-04-21 Thread Matt Wilkie
> It would be nice if ctrl-mousewheel would change the font size too. https://bugs.launchpad.net/leo-editor/+bug/363145 (not nagging, just linking) -- -matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to le

Re: Trouble installing Leo

2011-04-27 Thread Matt Wilkie
If you're using a gnome based linux desktop (e.g. ubuntu), pressing [ctrl]-[h] will show/hide dot files and directories. An alternative is to [ctrl]-[L] to put focus on the location bar (similar to url bar in a browser) and add "/.leo" to "/home/bob" -matt On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Robert

Re: sync. to/from online tree view

2011-05-12 Thread Matt Wilkie
there's also the google command line tools - http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/, which do have access to the shared services like docs: google docs edit --title "Shopping list" --editor vim (from http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/wiki/Manual) -- -matt -- You received this message because yo

Re: tabwidth

2011-05-15 Thread Matt Wilkie
> So, nobody wants to help me with the simple tabwidth question? Hi Ivanov, I've not used it much, but directives page (http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/directives.html#index-39) says: {{{ @tabwidth Sets the width of tabs. Negative tab widths cause Leo to convert tabs to spaces. }}} s

Re: how to contribute

2011-05-16 Thread Matt Wilkie
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:48 PM, wrote: > How about creating a flattr account? That seems to be emerging as the way to > sponsor open source development... Sort of "like" button backed by real > money ;) I suggested this a few months ago. At that time Edward was firmly against the idea. However

Re: how to contribute

2011-05-18 Thread Matt Wilkie
> As an experiment I've added a flattr button to Leo's home page.  Feel > free to click it :-) http://flattr.com/thing/277742/Leo done :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroup

Re: The highlights of my workflow

2011-05-18 Thread Matt Wilkie
thanks for this Edward. It is very helpful. -matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups

Re: A huge improvement: use @ extension if there is no @language in effect

2011-05-29 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Leo now uses the language implied by the file extension in the nearest > ancestor @ node if no @language directive is in effect. thank you Edward (and Jason for suggesting it). This should effectively remove a small yet persistent nit. :) -matt -- You received this message because you are sub

Re: v4.9b Import menu

2011-06-09 Thread Matt Wilkie
I have this same problem, see attached. Leo updated from bzr a few minutes ago: Leo Log Window Leo 4.9 beta 2, build 4265, June 4, 2011 Python 2.6.6, qt version 4.6.1 Windows 6, 1, 7600, 2, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post

Re: v4.9b Import menu

2011-06-09 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Please check your @menus nodes in your myLeoSettings.leo or the file > being loaded. okay, thanks for that. I don't recall ever adding or changing any @menu settings, however I did create myLeoSettings.leo at one point so I could enable/disable plugins, customize the external editor, and maybe

Re: v4.9b Import menu

2011-06-09 Thread Matt Wilkie
> I'm left wondering if I should be > removing other branches too just to be safe, though I'm cautious > because I don't understand 90% of what the nodes in that file do. Well, that caution was shortlived. :) I just deleted everything in myLeoSettings except for: {{{ - About this file - @settings

[ctrl-z] in headline doesn't undo

2011-06-09 Thread Matt Wilkie
When editing a headline pressing [Ctrl-Z] doesn't undo. Rather nothing at all appears to happen, however depending on what key is pressed next, it continues to do nothing, or a strange character is entered instead (I presume it's a raw Ctrl-Z). The "what character is next" isn't consistent. Furthe

Re: v4.9b Import menu

2011-06-13 Thread Matt Wilkie
> I'm not seeing any problems.  Does this happen when you pull a clean > copy of the branch? will do, more on that later. > Also, could you provide a complete traceback?  I am not aware of any > QAccessibleWidgets in Leo. This is the complete text from the console window: {{{ *** isPython3: Fals

Re: Undo?

2011-06-29 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Iterate back through the global undo stack and only act on the undoings > which affect the current node?  :-)  I'm sure it's not as simple as > that, but it must also be possible. what happens in the case of [cut] text from NodeA and [paste] into NodeB? (with focus in NodeB) especially if there

Re: Visions of Leo 5.0

2011-06-29 Thread Matt Wilkie
There are many very good comments here! I have some things of my own laundry list to add. In a quick re-read before posting the list rings more of complaint than helpful feedback. Please understand that's not the tone I mean to impart. I really like Leo, but I do have a hard time getting completely

Re: Visions of Leo 5.0

2011-06-29 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Does the edit in external editor not work seamlessly from rclick menu? It does now, but I had to set it up in myLeosettings.leo. ...{does some tests} ...and it still works after removing my custom editor string. I guess I'm remembering pain from before, which is now fixed. Happily we can c

Re: What colors & layout options should Leo use by default?

2011-07-17 Thread Matt Wilkie
Here is my vote: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized :-) -matt On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > There have been enough comments about Leo's default look to convince > me that it could be improved.  I would welcome suggestions for a more > uniform/standard look. > > The

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