On Thu, 22 May 2014 09:25:24 -0500
Kent Tenney <kten...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't tell if this thread is hinting that tabbed body panes would
> be feasible, I sure hope so.
> 
> I think _persistent_ tabbed body panes could be much more than
> another cool bell/whistle, I think they could unleash a new paradigm
> in editing.

Unless of course you use bookmarks, which are basically hierarchical
tabbed body panes :-)

Cheers -Terry

> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:01 AM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
> <leo-editor@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 May 2014 19:19:32 -0700 (PDT)
> > nakedmind <eric.medina.atie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thursday, May 22, 2014 12:16:45 AM UTC+8, Edward K. Ream wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:11 AM, nakedmind
> >> > <eric.medi...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
> >> > > On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 7:20:44 PM UTC+8, Terry wrote:
> >> > >>
> >> > >> I wonder if it would be sense for Leo's select body code to
> >> > >> use a hook or something similar to find the body widget, so
> >> > >> that plugins could change the meaning of "the body widget"
> >> > >> more easily.  Will make a note.
> >> > >>
> >> > >
> >> > > I don't know if it's related but I've had this idea for a while
> >> > > now.
> >> > What if
> >> > > you can have multiple body editors for different data like
> >> > > ordinary
> >> > text,
> >> > > rich text, image, etc.
> >> > > There is a global dictionary that maps node directives to body
> >> > > editors. Plugins can add new node directives and select which
> >> > > existing body
> >> > editors
> >> > > to use by just
> >> > > updating the global dictionary. Or plugins can add new body
> >> > > editors. So
> >> > if
> >> > > create a plugin that introduces a @pdf node directive and a
> >> > corresponding
> >> > > pdf viewer, I can just update the global dictionary and leo
> >> > > will know
> >> > that
> >> > > nodes with headlines starting with the aforementioned directive
> >> > > will use
> >> > my
> >> > > plugin's pdf viewer. The body editor may even be an external
> >> > application.
> >> >
> >> > Not a bad idea.  In effect, this would be a generalization of the
> >> > viewrendered or viewrendered2 plugins.  At present, these plugins
> >> > have this logic hard coded.
> >> >
> >> > It's surprisingly complicated to switch the rendering widget
> >> > dynamically.  It's conceivable that a more general approach would
> >> > be less complex/buggy, but I wouldn't get my hopes up :-)
> >> >
> >> > Edward
> >> >
> >>
> >> I'd like to take a stab at this once I get some free time. Can you
> >> give some pointers as to where in leo's code I should start
> >> hacking. I have limited knowledge on leo's code but i'm pretty
> >> experienced with pyqt.
> >>
> >> Eric
> >
> > I'm going to repost a repost of an old post about how I think Leo's
> > body editor(s) should ideally integrate.
> >
> > Two old threads:
> >
> > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/leo-editor/M-8TcxYAUpI/OovFbolHAzoJ
> >
> > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/leo-editor/IBnrAH2xIQI/OdQ-kzt2cjcJ
> >
> > Cheers -Terry
> >
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