On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Kent Tenney <kten...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I say 'read' because in vim the command ':r(ead) <filename>' will > place the content of <filename> into the current buffer at the cursor > position. > > and ':e(dit) <filename>' creates a new buffer associated with <filename> > > maybe ctrl-o should list .leo files, ctrl-e select from all, create @auto > nodes, > ctrl-r place file contents into current node. > > Too vimcentric? What are the emacs equivalents? Geeze, it's been a week, and this was supposed to be a 3-day bug :-) Good questions. Imo, the actual names don't matter as much as the operations they name. The question is, what use case (or cases) do we want to support cleanly? In other words, we need something akin to opening a file in Emacs or vim and optionally modifying and saving the file. @auto is the obvious candidate to use. We "slurp" all the text into the node. But, alas, that only works the first time. That is, @auto will, by default, *parse* the file, and there may be whitespace errors when that happens. My second thought was @nosent, but that fails because it doesn't do a import/read. Looking at the plugins, it looks like the at_folder and at_view plugins do roughly what is wanted. I'll investigate further, but in any case, it appears we need an entirely new kind of @<file> directive to handle this use case. I'm not sure what to call it. Maybe @view (as in the plugin) . Maybe @open?? I don't think @slurp will fly :-) Any suggestions? Edward P.S. Whatever name is chosen, it should be relatively easy to implement. Even if it weren't easy, it would be worth doing to help newbies and others. This is a major hole that must be plugged immediately. EKR --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
