On Wednesday, July 5, 2023 at 10:30:39 PM UTC-4 iamap...@gmail.com wrote:
There's a large difference between Edward's work flow and mine - not that either of us has a single "work flow", I'm sure. He likes to use clones extensively - often extracting them with the cff command, I think. I tend to search using the Nav tab and mark nodes of interest - I have my own key bindings to do that, since the bindings of the EditPlus editor were so familiar to me from years of pre-Leo use (of course, once you have marked some nodes you can clone them all with the *clone-marked-nodes* command). Instead of cloning I jump between them with the forward-back arrows and the *goto-next-marked* command, which I have bound to F4. When I want to keep looking back at the content of a node, I will usually keep it visible using the Freewin plugin (that ability is the main reason I wrote the plugin). Hi, Thomas, If I'm right, i.e., you mainly use mark, clone to understand the problem, and Edward mainly aggregates all relevant content through cff and then filters it, right? I haven't used clones very much. I usually skip around from marked node to marked node, plus using the forward/back buttons. Also I looked at the freewin plugin and I don't quite understand why you need this? Does this plugin look like a panel + viewrender combination? Its functionality could be replaced by the powerful 'free layout', wouldn't it? Or is there anything else I missed? Free layout does not do the same job as the Freewin plugin. FW gives you a view of a particular node. No matter where you navigate in the tree, a given FW window always shows you the same node (though you can have several FW windows open at the same time, each for a different node). The alternate view (the viewrendered-type display) is there mostly so you can get a nicely readable rendering of a body written in ReStructuredText, or check that your edits to such a node render the way you wanted. Sometimes I think of a FW window as a kind of index card open next to the work in progress. Also, a FW window is a basic editor that is live on line with the underlying node. So even if you have selected some other node in the tree, if you see something that you want to change (in the FW's host node), you can just edit it in the FW window and save with CTRL-s as usual. No need to navigate back to that original node to make the change and then navigate back. Suppose you are working with three or four nodes, and you have cloned them under an organizing node somewhere, Since they are close together, you can easily move from one to another. But you can't see more than one at a time. Or instead of (or in addition to) cloning the nodes, you could open several of them in FW windows, and arrange those next to Leo's window. Now you could look from one to another without losing sight of the ones you navigated away from. This image <https://11707503125000652521.googlegroups.com/attach/21a129f48b851/freewin_example_4.png?part=0.3&view=1&vt=ANaJVrFYH3xbIuENm-Br3Kz_fkcl-ZzLn0ShHBc-vChmtOVDg8aA0k3U_JlVIJVIrSSNiOgSDmNfDNSDoJcluAm-7pqWekjFBJb74Ca4Iw1-MhGdQW4LCs4> shows a comparison between some of the prototype FW code to the final plugin code. If you can't see them at the same time it's harder to understand the differences. (BTW, FW windows now do syntax coloring; this wasn't in place at the time of the screenshot). Here is the thread in which I introduced the FW plugin. One of my posts <https://groups.google.com/g/leo-editor/c/lD-HKydcPCc/m/4fgUsnFwAgAJ> in the thread has some screenshots where I tried to show ways I used it. -- 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/f8859403-48d5-4236-89e7-9525578a794an%40googlegroups.com.
