In response to dclark's recent query about syncing leo and directory
hierarchies, and the recent fixing of the @path infrastructure, I've
done some more work on my "active_path" plugin.

An overview of what it does (i.e. the plugin menu about output) is here:
  http://www.greygreen.org/files/leo/About_Plugin_Activepath_Version_.html

It's on the trunk (the regular trunk, not the Qt branch :-)

I don't think it can cause damage easily, but of course it facilitates
the creation of @auto or @shadow nodes which may map to existing files,
so be careful.

Please send ideas / bugs etc.

There are some trick behaviors, eg.

/foo/
   /bar/
      @auto some.txt

is .../foo/bar/some.txt but

/foo/
   bar
      @auto some.txt

is .../foo/some.txt where leo's view organizes some.txt in the bar
organizer node (which doesn't exist on the file system).

This is handy for organizing and documenting directories that contain
things like ESRI GIS shapefiles, which are comprised of 4-6 sub files
without the requirement of any containing directory.  So instead of
looking at:

/foo/
  counties.shp
  counties.dbf
  counties.shx
  counties.sht
  counties.xml

you can look at

/foo/
  counties  [body text "counties of Minnesota"]

where 'counties' is a collapsed organizer node, and all the actual
files are in 'foo'.

Of course active_path can be used without messing with organizer nodes,
so that it simply shadows the filesystem.

Cheers -Terry

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