1. Agree, auto-formatting tabular data in Org-mode is one of the central features.
2. I will go back to my "continuous edit pane" idea. I think if you really want to recreate Org-mode and make it attractive to those familiar with Org-mode there must be a "continuous edit pane" mode for Leo. On Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 12:08:49 PM UTC-5, Arjan wrote: > > This sounds great! I would add two further desiderata based on orgmode's > capabilities (though I don't know if they are feasible). > > 1. Support for tabular data inside the body pane. In orgmode capturing > some tabular data is as easy as writing "| column a | column b |" etc.; you > can navigate columns with tab, columns adapt their width to the content, > and it is structure-aware, e.g. you can export tables to CSV/Excel. Perhaps > something like "@language csv" (or tab-separated @language tsv) could be > Leo's answer? > > 2. In OrgMode, outline structure and content are in the same pane. You can > expand all hierarchies and directly see and work on all the text in context > (i.e. see the contents of preceding and following headings). I've started > using Leo for writing and as information-manager, but this is really the > biggest thing holding me back to use it for everything. Leo's strength > derives from the outline capabilities, so you have to put small units of > information in nodes to benefit from that, and that means you can only see > one small piece of information at a time **while working on the text / > information**. > So, what would be great is to be able to mark e.g. a chapter or section > node with an option "include all child nodes in the chapter's body pane in > outline order", with the ability to edit the child nodes' contents > directly. Probably far-fetched, but I can dream, right? ;) > > All best, > > Arjan > -- 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.
