I've just written a plugin to open free-floating editor windows that are linked to nodes on a Leo outline. It's very simple, much simpler than the *edit-pane *plugin. That's because it does much less. But it does pretty well just what I wanted.
The plugin has a command that opens a new editing window that is locked to the selected outline node. If you type into it, the host node's text picks up the changes. If you type into the host node, the free-floating editor pane picks up the changes. You can have multiple editing panes open, one per selected node. The use-case for the plugin comes from the zettel-kasten work from last year. There was a long but rather fragmented discussion of that last spring: see https://groups.google.com/g/leo-editor/c/TqiNdBfnEig/m/2qAK9XecAgAJ. The idea is that in a physical zettel-kasten (basically an extensive, cross-referenced set of index cards, each one having a narrowly-focused topic), one would get out a number of related index cards - the zettels - and spread them out so they could all be looked at (and maybe altered) at the same time. In a tree-like presentation like Leo's, you can't really do that. You can have several editors in the edit pane and you can make that pane to be free-floating, but they become cumbersome quickly, and don't help you focus your attention on just the bits that you want. And it's too easy to accidentally change the focus of one of them to the wrong node. This plugin simulates placing selected cards on a desktop so you can think about them and work on them. You could even move the cards to a different workspace with no other clutter. These editor windows are so simple that they don't do any colorizing, but for the intended purpose this wouldn't be needed. The underlying editor widget implements its own undo functionality (CNTL-Z). The editor will update the text of the host outline node even if it is out of sight in another workspace (tested on Windows but not yet on Linux). I haven't asked for this plugin to be merged into Leo yet, but you can get it to play with at my own clone repo: https://github.com/tbpassin/leo-editor/tree/tbp-freefloat-editor The plugin is the *leo/plugins/freewin.py* file in the *tbp-freefloat-editor* branch. To use it, copy the file to Leo's plugins directory, add it to the list of enabled plugins in MyLeoSettings.py, and restart Leo. Select a node to work with, and run the command named *z-open-win*. On Tuesday, May 25, 2021 at 11:07:16 AM UTC-4 Edward K. Ream wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 11:18 PM tbp1...@gmail.com <tbp1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Turns out that *edit-pane-test-open* is almost there. > > > Glad to hear it. > > BTW, do we know if anyone actually uses this edit-pane thing? >> > > Like so much else about Leo, there seems to be know way to know until > someone complains :-) > > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/33938da3-1ef4-49a6-8386-cec9236f2800n%40googlegroups.com.
