[Zim-wiki] Makeshift Table plugin
Hello! Some time ago I have written a makeshift ascii-art based table plugin. I have now uploaded it, in case someone else wants to use it too. http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~k.bauer/zim-makeshift-table-plugin/trunk/ It uses fixed-width text to create an emulation of tables; While rudimentary and not working well with HTML-printing (linebreaks inside the rows) it might help some managing their data until someone has the time for writing a real table module. Details are explained in the module comment inside the source file. The main advantage compared to using source code blocks is the (limited) ability to use links/images inside tables. So far I had no problems with the plugin, but I'd dearly recommend using file versioning to prevent data loss in case of bugs. - Klaus ___ 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] Folder structure
2013/8/20 Jaap Karssenberg jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com: [...] The suffix, or the -attachments folders solve a problem for indexing. This is a problem I will solve differently when refactoring the index. The idea is that zim will inspect the content of text files to determine whether or not it are pages. I don't mind allowing alternative suffix as well if that makes interoperability easier, but for default will stick to .txt. [...] Regards, Jaap Just a quick list of issues that are raised by the ambigous file extension and would require major (probably OS-dependent) pains to fix without changing the extension: + No distinction from plain text files by icon (inconvenient e.g. when viewing results of desktop search). + No double-click-to-open in file browsers / search results without breaking the behaviour for non-zim .txt files. + ZIM must check .txt files for ZIM page format, - when indexing - when listing attachments - ... ? + When processing notebooks through an interactive shell, distinguishing normal text files from zim page files is unviable and inconvenient when processing them with shell scripts. Is there some reason, why you want to keep the .txt extension? I can't see much of an advantage. - Klaus ___ 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] Next in index, on same level?
2013/8/14 Jaap Karssenberg jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com: Afraid currently that is hardcoded. Coul dmake it optional, or could make the tree fold again after going to the next page. Point is that by fully disabling it, you have no direct view of sub-pages for cases where you do use them actively. True, subpages are often actually needed... and if I didn't favor flat, chronologic structures (since I end up tricking myself with overcomplicated structures otherwise) not having them show would be annoying. The most compatible solution would probably be binding the fold current tree and go to next to a new hotkey (Shift+Alt+Up/Down/PageUp/PageDown?) and make the folding an option. I made a makeshift solution with some gotchas by using AutoHotKey, that does just that though, so for me personally a clean implementation would be nice, but not high priority now. - Klaus ___ 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
[Zim-wiki] Next in index, on same level?
Hello! Is there currently some function for jumping to the next entry in the index of the same herachy level? I organize my pages into a flat, date-based structure but sometimes I have e.g. technical details that logically belong to the page but are uninteresting when browsing through the notebook. Currently when using the next in index menu item, the detail subpage(s) will be included. The same problem applies to the default behaviour of expanding the tree when visiting a page.When I want to browse through the summary pages, I'd rather leave the tree folded as much as possible unless explicitly needing the details; Most of the time the subtree is just an unnecessary distraction, especially since the attachment directory may contain folders that are no pages at all (but show up in the tree). kind regards, Klaus ___ 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] A makeshift table plugin; breaks undo.
I have largely overhauled my table plugin with a new format (less boundary
cases for better stability, cleaner functions, a bit of documentation).
The problem of preserving Undo information persists.
2013/7/8 Klaus-Dieter Bauer bauer.klaus.die...@gmail.com
Hello!
I have written a make-shift table plugin, that just helps managing tables
made from verbatim text (though images and links are possible, but
currently break the formatting). Basically it looks for a line starting
with {{| and the earliest line afterwards ending with ||} and realigns
table contents in between.
However, I found this extremely difficult to do on the level of the
parsetree and instead extract the source code through
page.dump(zim.formats.wiki), modify the source and write it back with
page.parse(...).
Sadly though, afterwards Undo is not possible.
Is there some way that I can modify the contents of a page without
breaking Undo?
I have attached the experimental source and a file with example tables for
reference. (Note: High risk of data loss, it's still pretty buggy).
kind regards, Klaus
Content-Type: text/x-zim-wiki
Wiki-Format: zim 0.4
Creation-Date: 2013-07-10T16:21:28+02:00
== Table ==
Created Wednesday 10 July 2013
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Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim 0.60 released
2013/5/2 Jaap Karssenberg jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Syv Ritch s...@foto-biz.com wrote: Thanks for the new version. I just upgraded to 0.60. I just have some questions. I use Zim 0.60 on an xUbuntu 12.04. * Up to 0.59 (including 0.59), every time that I would stop typing, Zim would save the notebook after a few seconds. It doesn't do it anymore, Zim only saves the notebook on exit. I preferred the older way of auto-saving. Is there a way for changing it back to the continuous auto-save? * The new 0.60 is much slower on startup than 0.59. I did a: zim --index -V notebooks/(notebook name). It helped (a lot) with the speed of the startup but definitely not as fast as 0.59 which was almost instantaneous. After the startup I do not see much of difference in the speed. Am I the only one and doing something wrong or... Afraid I don't recognize either of those two items. Auto-save code has not changed at all in this release. Checking on my system is saves about every 10 seconds or when leaving a page. If this does not work on your system, please open a bug report. First time startup may indeed be slower due to the index being rebuild. After that there should be no delta. In fact on my system the new version is faster than the old one. Might help to run zim with debug logging and see at what debug output the time is spent. Also something that should go in a bug report. Regards, Jaap I can confirm the startup speed problem. I created a bugreport for it with some detail analysis. https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/1177718 If I understand it right, zim queries for an existing server on startup before starting a new one and has a ≈10 second timeout waiting for a response that will never come. kind regards, Klaus ___ 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] new styles and index pain
2013/5/7 Niels-Oliver Walkowski walkow...@nowalkowski.de Dear folks, I am testing the possibility to move with my PhD project from Scrivener to Zim. I really love Scrivener, but does not really support Linux is brings a lot of problems. So a more native solution would be great. At the moment I have two questions where I couldn't help myself on m own. The first on is: it is possible to define new styles in zim apart from just changing existing styles in styles.conf. Just adding it there has no effect as I experienced, what would be the effort to add new styles ( I am capable of doing some Python) When you write a text, the best writing experience for me is to write in between wiki and hirarchical structes and to use them both to rearrange text block. At the moment the index pane list the wiki pages alphabetically, what would be awsome and really needed for the rearrangement process is to influence the order of the pages within the index. I noticed that drag and drop is generally possible in that widget but what was dropped doesn't stay there. So, also the question, is this possible to change somewhere and if not, can anyone guess, what would be the effort enable it. thanks a lot in advance Niels Hello! Given that you are just migrating right now, there IS a possibility to get an arbitrary order: Instead of creating new pages the normal way, create new pages by creating a link to a target +PAGENAME in the parent page and follow the link. This way you have an order-able (cut/paste) list of subpages *in addition* to the alphabetical index pane. Obviously though this approach is sort of limited. It doesn't provide a full custom-sorted tree view and requires extra work when moving a page, but as a work-around it might suffice. kind regards, Klaus ___ 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] Searching for check boxes
Unchecked boxes are recognized as (nestable) TODO items by the task-list plugin. As for [*] and [x], I don't know any method short of full-text search with external tools (e.g. `grep [x] *.txt */*.txt */*/*.txt ...`). kind regards, Klaus 2013/2/17 Chris Habasinski cjh...@gmail.com I have seen this question asked before but could not find an answer: How can I search for checkboxes - open, checked and x-ed. I have tried everything I can think of in the search pane but no joy. Thanks ___ 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] c:\Program Files\zim-0.58\zim.pyw fails for 0.58
2012/12/18 Jaap Karssenberg jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:13 AM, JP Vossen j...@jpsdomain.org wrote: On 12/18/2012 02:57 AM, Jaap Karssenberg wrote: Probably you have to use the --standalone switch in this case. This was also reported for version 0.57. Yup, that worked. And now that you mention it, I vaguely remember that. So either of these work in a shortcut: C:\Program Files\zim\zim.pyw --standalone --or-- C:\Python26\pythonw.exe c:\Program Files\zim\zim.pyw --standalone (Anyone who gets here via search engine, note my previous message detailing where zim.pyw came from.) Just tested on my own system, but for me running pythonw *without* --standalone works just fine. Executed with a shortcut terminal pops up briefly but closes automatically when zim window pops up. (Which makes sense as the initial process quits ones the background process is started.) Using python 2.7 on windows 7. Regards, Jaap Some observations from my side (Windows 7 64bit, Python 2.7 (Enthought Distribution), zim 0.58). If run as python zim.py, I get the notebook-selection dialogue and can open other notebooks with Ctrl-O. But If I press F1, the manual doesn't appear. When adding either --debug or --verbose, the console says on F1-press: C:\Python27\python.exe: can't open file 'zim': [Errno 2] No such file or directory If I run zim as pythonw zim.py I get the notebook-selection dialogue, but after selecting a notebook the notebook dialogue disappears, pythonw.exe keeps running in the background but nothing happens. In order to get debug output I modified zim.py (saved as zim-customstart.py) to write zim.log also when run with pythonw.exe ( see also https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/1091606 ). I ran pythonw zim-customstart.py --verbose --debug, tried to open a notebook and then killed the pythonw-processes to gain access to zim.log, which reads: Traceback (most recent call last): File string, line 1, in module File C:\Python27\lib\multiprocessing\forking.py, line 373, in main prepare(preparation_data) File C:\Python27\lib\multiprocessing\forking.py, line 488, in prepare '__parents_main__', file, path_name, etc File E:\portable\zim-0.58\zim-customstart.py, line 79, in module zim.main(argv) File E:\portable\zim-0.58\zim\__init__.py, line 294, in main zim.ipc.handle_argv() File E:\portable\zim-0.58\zim\ipc.py, line 117, in handle_argv servermain() File E:\portable\zim-0.58\zim\ipc.py, line 296, in servermain os.dup2(si.fileno(), sys.stdin.fileno()) OSError: [Errno 0] Error Just for reference from ipc.py the relevant code part: def servermain(): '''Main function for the servr process''' # Decouple from parent environment # and redirect standard file descriptors os.chdir(/) si = file(os.devnull, 'r') os.dup2(si.fileno(), sys.stdin.fileno()) # Here the Error occurs. I.e. setting STDIN to devnull fails. Interestingly though, when run from an interactive console (both ipython and python -i) the code works (but renders the console unusable). The maimed python processes kept running after closing the host window (cmd.exe) and caused some single-core CPU load. Per running maimed python process, there was 4% cpu load by python.exe and an additional 4% in csrss.exe (Client/Server Run-Time Subsystem according to neuter.com), i.e. totalling half a core on my hyperthreaded quadcore. The spike in heat and fan noise of the device suggest that turbo-boost was active too. It seems windows doesn't like STDIN being connected to NUL for whatever reason. Interestingly, when running a script-file import os import sys nul = file(os.devnull,'r') os.dup2(nul.fileno(), sys.stdin.fileno()) print test the script terminated without any issues, so the weird behaviour of interactive sessions probably is causes by the interactive processing of input. Sadly, Errno 0 isn't exactly helping either. Assuming this is a forwarded C-error-code, 0 should normally mean, that there is NO error. Anyway, among the possbile error reasons for the C-function dup2, I found only one plausible reason: One of the file descriptors may be invalid. -- Addition -- In further test-runs I produced a yet more-confusing zim.log. In addition to the OSError it contains a region of binary zeros (for whatever reason) and some EOFError: Traceback (most recent call last): File zim-customstart.py, line 79, in module zim.main(argv) File E:\portable\zim-0.58\zim\__init__.py, line 445, in main gui = server.get_notebook(notebook) File E:\portable\zim-0.58\zim\ipc.py, line 757, in get_notebook return self.get_proxy(RemoteObject(self._notebookklass, uri), open) File E:\portable\zim-0.58\zim\ipc.py, line 739, in get_proxy self.init_object(remoteobject) File E:\portable\zim-0.58\zim\ipc.py, line 705, in call re = conn.recv() EOFError The full log file is sent as attachment. regards, Klaus zim.log Description: Binary data
Re: [Zim-wiki] Ubuntu Dash and Zim txt files
In previous discussions, has Windows been taken into account? From what I could find, even Microsoft software uses stub-program if a specific version of a program should be launched. So it seems safe to assume that there is no good mechanism to make the destinction work in windows. An advantage of a likely non-conflicting file-extension like .zimwiki would be easy cross-platform mime-type handling. Seeing how the mime-type issue seems to make a lot of work, isn't it actually a good point to re-discuss the extension issue? regards, Klaus 2012/12/16 Jaap Karssenberg jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Svenn Are Bjerkem svenn.bjer...@googlemail.com wrote: Isn't it more wise to use a different extension than .txt for the zim markup files? I guess this has been pointed out some times in the past? Use .zxt or .zml or .zimwiki so that .txt is reserved for pure text files and no need to use processing overhead on file headers to decide if it is a zim markup file or a pure text file attachment. .txt has been around longer than zim, and I have always thought it to be a bit 'egoistic' to grab this for a special purpose for one particular application. Yes, this has been discussed more than once on this list before. I personally don't think re-opening the discussion at this time will bring any new ideas to the table. Regards, 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 ___ 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
