On Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 11:08:49 AM UTC-6, Arjan wrote: ...two further desiderata based on org mode's capabilities > > 1. Support for tabular data inside the body pane. >
A new table.py plugin will do this. 2. In OrgMode, outline structure and content are in the same pane. > This is really the key design difference between Leo and emacs/org-mode. I have been meaning to write about it. Here are my thoughts: There are obvious advantages to org mode's operation. Behind the scenes, there is only one pane/widget/window, whatever you want to call it. Would I use the org mode way if I had it to do all over again, knowing what I know now about the difficulties involved? Hard to say, but I like the separation of outline view and body pane. In Leo, the body pane is *always* visible, and I think that's important. Otoh, an everything-in-one pane design works very well with Emacs's "windowing" system. It would be foolish to criticize it much. > 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**. > Interesting. I never thought of that benefit to the org mode way. > 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? ;) > Something like that has been proposed before. I ignored it then, and I don't like your specific proposal much. But a more general solution is interesting, namely one-pane operation, just like org mode. Visually, this would be a radical departure for Leo. There would also be large adjustments behind the scenes. But everything is possible, given enough effort... Edward -- 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.
