On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Brian Shaver <shakerl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was looking to add functionality to make it easier to link pages (e.g. > copy/paste page link and maybe drag and drop a page from the index pane) but > was pleasantly surprised to find pretty much everything I was looking for is > already implemented via *shift-^L* and even the drag and drop works. > Perhaps the drag and drop is a new feature because I'm pretty sure I tried > this previously and it wasn't there. > > I ran into one difficulty with utilizing the new functionality I was > learning, in order to be effective from the keyboard, I need to change focus > from the editor to the index pane to select the page I want to link to. This > looks like it should be working with the *alt-space* key binding, but for > me this key binding is tied to the GNOME window management menu ( Maximize, > Minimize etc.). Which makes sense ... I think I knew that one already. I > also tried the the *ctrl-space* option, but that one doesn't appear to do > anything for me. Am I missing something or does using *alt-space* for this > functionality conflict with common GNOME key binding? > You can use Ctrl-Space when it is enabled in the preferences. As of zim 0.51 Alt-Space is disabled since it conflicts in too many cases. 2nd question is about dropping in a new plugin somewhere. I was going to try > the "Insert Snippet" plugin out. Do I have to put that into the Zim code > base under zim/zim/plugins or can I put it somewhere else? (i.e. > ~/.zim/plugins) It looked like I'd be able to put it into a directory in my > PATH, but this didn't seem to work. > It needs to be in a folder in the Python path below a zim/plugins structure. If you want to add it in a private folder it should be somehting like ~/.local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/zim/plugins/ (change it to your python version) I was also wondering if there was any existing functionality which would > generate some kind of display of the sub-tree structure under the current > namespace? What I'd like is to be able generate a linked indented listing > pages under a sub-tree and paste it into the parent page. Kind of like a > table of contents. > I think there are one or two open bug reports asking for something like that, but currently it is not available. Regards, Jaap
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