On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:42:22 -0700 (PDT) john lunzer <lun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think that collapse_nodes_after_move should be False by default. > That is not expected behavior (performing an additional action that I > didn't ask for) and if it is desired by the user then the user should > have to enable it themselves. I think I agree, although just barely ;-) It's tricky because navigating the outline with the keyboard is difficult without the "collapse as you move up the tree" behavior: A a1 a2 a3 (omitted to save space) a20 B b1 b2 say you want to get from a2 to b2, with collapsing, it's left, down, right, down. Without collapsing, it's down x 20. It would be different if down was bound to goto-next-sibling, but it's bound to next-line. So, I'd agree with changing the default, Edward might say we never argue about preferences, it's up to the user to set them :-) It's a hard call because without knowing about the @settings, and there's no way to make them all knowable any more than there's a way to know about all the browser (chrome://flags/) or Emacs settings, the new user may find keyboard navigation more intuitive but much less useful. For your actual use case: > Is it possible to suppress automatic collapsing of subtrees while I'm > navigating an outline? I often cycle through several nodes in several > places, and when they automatically collapse, I need to re-navigate, > which slows me down and disrupts my thinking. if you saying your cycling three 4-5 nodes repeatedly (common with coding), I'd say there are three ways to make that easy: The bookmarks plugin is designed to be quick enough to use for (multiple) short lived sets of nodes of interest, it's not just for long term bookmarks as it's name might, unfortunately, imply. An older alternative I still use for nodes of transient one session interest is the "quickmove_jump_to" command in the quick_move plugin, which adds a button on the icon bar that jumps you to the current node when clicked. Unless you "right-click -> Make Permanent", these are session transient. And finally, if you really wanted, I suppose ;-), you could use clones to provide access to your set of nodes of interest in a compact group of siblings. Cheers -Terry > On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 1:38:49 PM UTC-4, john lunzer wrote: > > > > This is good to know! This has been plaguing me for ages! > > > > On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 12:44:35 PM UTC-4, Terry Brown wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:09:25 -0700 (PDT) > >> Phil <phil....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > Is it possible to suppress automatic collapsing of subtrees > >> > while I'm navigating an outline? I often cycle through several > >> > nodes in several places, and when they automatically collapse, I > >> > need to re-navigate, which slows me down and disrupts my > >> > thinking. > >> > >> There's a bunch of @bool collapse_node_blah settings under "Tree > >> operation" in @settings, you could copy from leoSettings.leo to > >> myLeoSettings.leo and try those. > >> > >> Cheers -Terry > >> > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
