On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 2:32 PM Jeff R. <jrfilipov...@gmail.com> wrote:
I do not know whether I am remotely close to the intended audience for Leo, > but I can say that Leo does not feel far from the type of tool I would use > on a regular basis. > Heh. I think your interest suffices to make you one of the target audience. I am also constantly working on a book of research on my areas of practice > (constitutional law). My practice area is academic. In this arena, Leo is > superior to orgmode, due mostly to the use of clones. With my subject area > it is impossible to create an outline that does not make heavy use of > clones if it is being efficient. And clones make the outline so much more > clear and easy to work though. But I can’t justify using a second text > editor for this because orgmode is good enough for this purpose (and can be > customized to whatever extent needed). But there are other things I like > about Leo (python over elisp, for example) that still make me long to be > able to make it a centerpiece of my workflow. > There is never any reason to apologize for using multiple editors. Beyond orgmode, I find that Emacs is much more inviting to customization. > ... > While I think python is a much more powerful and useful language, my > impression is that Leo does not create such an inviting environment (in > terms of inviting and enabling users to customize the text editing > experience) by comparison. It is very possible that I simply have not > looked deep enough, or know enough about python to know how to do all of > the things elisp brings to the surface (buffer movement commands, commands > like save-excursion, save-restriction, buffer switching, font-locking, > etc.). > It's easy to *customize* existing Leonine features, which includes many emacs features. However, adding missing features would require more work. Please consider requesting particular emacs-like features. For example, I have no idea what save-restriction or font-locking do. So, the short answer is that I really need orgmode or a viable replacement > for it, and I recognize that this is well outside of Leo’s mission, hence > my question about Leo inside emacs. > Many thanks for these comments. All Leo devs rely on newcomers for new perspectives. Otherwise, we stick pretty much to our to-do lists :-) 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/CAMF8tS0LmoCpVR12K3dv%2B5wXLe5vZfSpO03bApvWRGTEBK3CGg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
