Over the past couple of years I have begun to see Leo as an outlining editor that can emulate every editor and every outliner out there. Every time I try to narrow Leo's spot in in my toolchain, it widens and another dedicated tool passes on.
The recent discussion about paring Leo down to a plugin for a text editor really brought this into focus for me. I think what users are looking for here is a Leo where the text edit box looks and acts like their editor du jour. Focusing on learning markdown and restructured text really focused me on how little I need to learn and how unimportant formatting WHILE writing fiction and non-fiction truly is. What wins are the words. The writing is organized. Leo makes sure of that. So after all this time, I load up a different editor for evaluation (Visual Code, which seems to be atom designed by grown-ups) and find myself missing Leo's text box, my abbreviations and my organizer file. Now atom or code becomes the whizzy plug-in material for Leo to wrap. But at that point, why bother. Why not just emulate as was done with vim? Any tool that would or could be classed as outliner or editor can be emulated by Leo. So why bother writing new editors when you could emulate one in Leo? Pondering onward, Chris -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
