I have been meaning to check this for ages - what happens if you try to drag and drop a .leo file into a running leo?
looks like you have to drop it into the tree pane, and it then becomes one of the open .leo files - cool and if you try to drag and drop a non-leo file (into the tree pane) it gets turned into an @file node. Good, I think... J^n On Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 4:38:58 PM UTC+1 tbp1...@gmail.com wrote: > Well, it's not *too* mysterious. When you drop the file its path gets > added to the command line that the OS uses to launch Leo (or whatever > program the desktop icon is for). > > On Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 10:43:49 AM UTC-4 Edward K. Ream wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 9:04 AM Thomas Passin <tbp1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> If there is a Leo shortcut on the desktop and you drag and drop a non-Leo >>> file on it, an instance of Leo will start and contain an @edit node for the >>> dropped file (a .cmd file will be put into an @file node). >>> >>> If you import the same file, it will get imported into an @auto subtree. >>> >>> Why the difference, and shouldn't both ways do the same thing? >>> >> >> Heh. I didn't know that I could drag and drop as you describe. Here are >> some other ways of importing files: >> >> - The import-file command calls *c.importAnyFile*. This method contains >> various special cases. Maybe some of those cases are dubious. >> - Create an empty @<file> node and do *refresh-from-disk*. >> - Create an @button node to do exactly as you please with >> *c.recursiveImport.* >> >> I don't think consistency between these ways is all that important. >> >> 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/a8249f47-f8d7-4b71-9283-4f99e95c8005n%40googlegroups.com.