Re: [Zim-wiki] problems installing zim0.55 on mac OS 10.7.3
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Robert Corty rco...@gmail.com wrote: I did so and got the following error: ERROR: Could not find python module files in path: list of paths long list of paths Try setting PYTHONPATH So does the list of paths contain /path/to/zim-0.55 or . ? Because the files that is where the missing files are. -- Jaap ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Zim-wiki] Multi user?
On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 09:17 +, João Santos wrote: Either way, ideally, zim should support simultaneous access to the files, for example in a NFS or SMB shared filesystem. Yupp, that what it all boils down to. -- Svenn ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Zim-wiki] Feature suggestion - outliner
I may be missing a point that is being made in this feature request, but couldn't you do something similar with just simple renaming of sub-pages since ZIM will rename the links for you if you did link pages. For example, your book starts as a single file under a name space: (Namespace) Great Novel (sub-page) book body Realize that your writing has turned into chapters: (Namespace) Great Novel (sub-page) Chapter 1 (sub-page) Chapter 4 Realize that things need to be broken up more: (Namespace) Great Novel (sub-page) 01 Chapter (sub-page) 02 Chapter (sub-page) 04.01 Chapter (sub-page) 04.02 Chapter (sub-page) 04.03 Chapter I mention this because I use a similar system to track all of my open projects. Most of my projects have a date (like meeting prep) or a month in which they need to be completed. So I name all of my projects using date codes that automatically reshuffle and stay in chronological order. (Namespace) Projects (sub-page) 2012-03-01 Faculty Meeting (sub-page) 2012-04 Open House Follow-Up If a date gets changed for a meeting, I simply change the date, and it reshuffles the projects so that it is always in chronological order. | Steve | | mowest...@yahoo.com | From: Ulf Bro ulf@web.de To: zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 3:01 AM Subject: [Zim-wiki] Feature suggestion - outliner I find Zim very useful for saving a lot of data in my everyday situation at work. There are a lot of things to keep in written form somewhere like when the customer wants this and that, then have him fill this form and call that telephone number at these particular weekdays and hours or these things are ordered by this or that company, ordering is sent by fax at Mrs. so and so. Thousands of small details, my data base is growing all the time. One namespace is enough for that. Now there is one additional feature which could be added to zim with only minor programming. If someone is writing a book and just starts to write the book not from the beginning but in the middle then he at some time will determine that his work has now grown to a size that he has to split it in two chapters. Sooner or later he has 5 chapters and some of the things in chapter 2 really belongs in chapter 4 and have to be moved. Then chapter 4 must be split in 3 sections, 4.1, 4.2 ,nd 4.3. Et cetera. For such purposes you normally use an outline editor. Now Zim can do some of that too. You can make pages and sub-pages and move them around like you want to. You can link them to each other or not link them as you like. Just one thing you can't do is to change the order of files appearing in the same namespace (physically they are files in the same folder). They always appear in alphabetical order. If Zim were to be changed so that pages can be swapped (and thus appear in another order in the index file) then Zim would actually be an outline editor. We would then just need a function to export everything into one big text file, or one big html file, that's all. It would't be difficult to program. This means you could write a complete book without linking any files at all (if you want). Or link as many as you want. There are other outliners out there but they aren't particularly good at cross linking and updating links when pages are moved. Ulf ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Zim-wiki] Multi user?
I've made a simple lock mechanism. I believe this lock mechanism should
work both on Windows and Linux (I've only tested on Linux and only on a
local filesystem). I'll test it in windows and shared filesystems later.
2012/3/1 Jaap Karssenberg jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:01 AM, João Santos j...@jsantos.eu wrote:
Wouldn't this module: http://packages.python.org/lockfile/lockfile.htmldo
the job?
Afraid not. This module will do locking between multiple processes on the
same system, but it is not suitable for .e.g. multiple systems accessing
the same share drive.
I think the most important use case for this multi-user sharing is each
user having his or her own computer, but sharing a share drive.
So locking needs to be platform independent, and can only use the (shared)
file system.
Regards,
Jaap
import os
import uuid
import shutil
class LockFailedError(Exception):
pass
class NotMyLockError(Exception):
pass
class CrossLock(object):
def __init__(self, name):
Represents a lockfile with a name
self.lock = .{0}.lock.format(name)
#We will have a unique id to assure that the lock
#belongs to the instance
self.id = uuid.uuid1()
self.filename = {0}/{1}.format(self.lock, self.id)
def _create_lockfile(self):
Creates the lock dir and file
#mkdir is atomic on windows and linux
#and will fail if dir already exists
os.mkdir(self.lock)
os.mknod(self.filename)
def acquire(self):
Tries to acquire lock.
try:
self._create_lockfile()
except:
raise LockFailedError
def break_lock(self):
Removes the lock directory
shutil.rmtree(self.lock)
def is_locked(self):
Tests if the file is locked
return os.access(self.lock, os.F_OK)
def is_my_lock(self):
Tests if the lock belongs to the instance
return os.access(self.filename, os.F_OK)
def release(self):
Removes the lock but only if owned by the instance
if not self.is_my_lock():
raise NotMyLockError
else:
self.break_lock()
if __name__ == '__main__':
lock = CrossLock(teste)
lock2 = CrossLock(teste)
print Trying to get get lock
try:
lock.acquire()
print Correct (Succeeded)
except:
print Incorrect (Failed)
print Trying to get a lock again
try:
lock.acquire()
print Incorrect (Succeeded)
except:
print Correct (Failed)
print Trying to release the lock with the wrong instance
try:
lock2.release()
print Incorrect (Succeeded)
except:
print Correct (Failed)
print Tryng to release the lock with the correct instance
try:
lock.release()
print Correct (Succeeded)
except:
print Incorrect (Failed)
raise
print Testing if it's locked
if lock.is_locked():
print Incorrect (True)
else:
print Correct (False)
print Trying to get get lock again
try:
lock.acquire()
print Correct (Succeeded)
except:
print Incorrect (Failed)
print Testing if it's locked
if lock.is_locked():
print Correct (True)
else:
print Incorrect (False)
print Trying to break the lock
try:
lock2.break_lock()
print Correct (Succeeded)
except:
print Incorrect (Failed)
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Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim 0.55 released !
Hello all, I wrote an article presenting the 0.55 release for the french site LinuxFR. It should be online in the next hours. Damien On 02/28/2012 09:57 PM, Jaap Karssenberg wrote: Dear all, I just uploaded version 0.55 of zim to the website. This release add support for numbered lists, adds Markdown as export format (and Copy As format). Also the index is now sorted naturally (so 10 sorts below 9) and there is a new plugin to show a table of contents per page. The search dialog has been fixed so it no longer hangs while searching, results are now shown incrementally and the search can be canceled. Fixed bugs with the export dialog, and for case sensitive rename on windows. Enjoy! Jaap CHANGELOG: === 0.55 - Tue 28 Feb 2012 === * Numbered lists are now supported * The index now has natural sorting, so 9 goes before 10 * Added new plugin to show a Table Of Contents per page, and allows modifying the outline * Added Markdown (with pandoc extensions) as an export format * New context menu item move text for refactoring text to a new page * Tasklist now supports a next: keyword to indicate dependencies, and it can hide tasks that are not yet actionable * Made zim taskbar icons and trayicon overloadable in theme - Andrei * Fixed behavior of Recent Pages pathbar in cases where part of the history is dropped * Fixed behavior of the Search dialog, it no longer hangs and also allows cancelling the search * Fixed bug where replacing a word (e.g spell correction) could drop formatting * Fixed behavior of case-sensitive rename on a case-insensitive file system (windows) ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Zim-wiki] Feature suggestion - outliner
but couldn't you do something similar with just simple renaming of sub-pages since ZIM will rename the links for you if you did link pages. I could For example, your book starts as a single file under a name space: (Namespace) Great Novel (sub-page) book body Realize that your writing has turned into chapters: (Namespace) Great Novel (sub-page) Chapter 1 (sub-page) Chapter 4 Realize that things need to be broken up more: (Namespace) Great Novel (sub-page) 01 Chapter (sub-page) 02 Chapter (sub-page) 04.01 Chapter (sub-page) 04.02 Chapter (sub-page) 04.03 Chapter This is very well possible. When you work with very large texts you offen decide that Chapter 04.03 can be split in two. The second half of this chapter can be joined to Chapter 07.03 whereas the first half of it can be pushed between 03.02 and 03.03. So the old 03.03 must be renamed to 03.04. The old 03.04 must be renamed to 03.05 et cetera. After doing that you may decide that the contents of Chapter 2 and 3 should be rearranged. The first half of Chapter 2 should be Chapter 2. The second half together with the first half of Chapter 3 should be Chapter 3. The rest should be Chapter 4. The old Chapter 4 must now be renamed to Chapter 5 et cetera. With an outliner like MaxThink these operations are a work of about 10 seconds in all. They can be done without lifting the fingers off the keyboard, you don't need a mouse for that. MaxThink users mostly type all the ideas they have so fast as possible without caring for if the ideas are in any way related to one another. After having touch typed for a certain time you review what you have done. With help of the built in functions like sort, or prioritize or gather etc. you collect ideas into bins or containers. When you look at the contents of every container you see what is missing. Then you add the missing ideas, splitting the container where necessary. Then again you join the containers into chapters. As time goes by your work gets more and more structure. So when you are asked to write an article about your city you don't start with the concept: first I write about where the city is, then how many inhabitants, what language they speak, and then the history. Then afterwards the industry and the cultural things. No, no. You write about the particular zoo that's very famous. Then you think about one particular park where the skateboarders meet. At once you remember that this is in the vicinity of the freemason lodge, that again lets you remember a famous freemason who discovered the Neanderthal Man. Which again is not far from the new Mosque. This again leads to think about the problems that arose last year as there was a heavy snowfall so that your grandmother hurt her leg. And so on. You just sit there and hammer in all kinds of ideas and only later you care to structure your work. Then, after having written 80 pages, you come to mention where the city is at, and what's the mayor's name and all that. Afterwards. Completing the task and rounding it off. Start in the middle and work forwards and backwards at the same time. Or start at the end and work backwards. Or write everything at the same time. How ever you want. This is a very creative way of writing. Often the end product looks quite different from your original notion. See the MaxThink homepage for examples of how this software enhances thinking. According to its creator Neil Larson, higher thinking consists of 4 tasks: (1) sorting (2) prioritizing (3) analysis (= splitting) and (4) synthesis (= joining). (Lower thinking includes such no-brainers like learning 8000 anatomical structures with their Latin names by heart, or knowing how to cure a tonsillitis or an atrial re-entry tachycardia). This lower thinking is nothing but storing a lot of data in the head or on paper or in a file, and retrieving it again. Telephone books do that. Higher thinking, on the contrary, is gaining wisdom from data already there - prioritizing what is important and what not, sorting to do the first things first, analysing to break down a problem to self defined components, and synthesis in collecting the pieces to new components of realization. On Linux I use gjots, on Windows MaxThink. Now you can't do that with Zim (yet), can you? Ulf ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Zim-wiki] Call for user cases ?
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: The dataloss and the fact that Zim cannot handle arbitrary text for input are the reasons why Zim is unsuitable for use. The mislabel icon and reappearing links are reasons why Zim seems only half-baked. One of my many use cases is storing code samples. If this is considered a valid use case then the two primary issues that I mention must be addressed. It is possible that your IMO overly forceful style of expressing your ideas will work against your goals. cannot handle arbitrary text While I'm not storing code in the normal sense at this point, many of my source file trees **are** marked up with other syntaxes, so in those cases I'd prefer to be able to turn off Zim's rendering. However I haven't yet come across any arbitrary **changes** to my data or actual data loss - so far they're just issues visual appearance - could you be more specific about any issues where Zim actually changes your data against your wishes (other than the headers of course)? ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Zim-wiki] Call for user cases ?
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 03:29, hans...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: The dataloss and the fact that Zim cannot handle arbitrary text for input are the reasons why Zim is unsuitable for use. The mislabel icon and reappearing links are reasons why Zim seems only half-baked. One of my many use cases is storing code samples. If this is considered a valid use case then the two primary issues that I mention must be addressed. It is possible that your IMO overly forceful style of expressing your ideas will work against your goals. Possibly, and I appreciate your telling me that. I don't see where I have been forceful but I'm sure that you're right. I am certainly no diplomat! cannot handle arbitrary text While I'm not storing code in the normal sense at this point, many of my source file trees **are** marked up with other syntaxes, so in those cases I'd prefer to be able to turn off Zim's rendering. However I haven't yet come across any arbitrary **changes** to my data or actual data loss - so far they're just issues visual appearance - could you be more specific about any issues where Zim actually changes your data against your wishes (other than the headers of course)? This bug has a real-life example: https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/585300 -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
