The discussion got me to examine the various commands' docstrings via F11. *paste-as-template *was new to me, and might have been handy from time to time. The word "template" doesn't convey anything useful to me about what the command does, but I don't have an alternate to suggest at this moment. The command name *paste-retaining-clones* is a little misleading to me because it leaves a question about what happens to non-cloned nodes in the copied subtree (they keep their gnxs too). The menu item label (*Paste Node As Clone* doesn't quite match up with the command's name, at least to me.
I better write some clarifying text about these commands in the new user guide I'm slowly working on, I suppose. On Saturday, July 8, 2023 at 8:50:14 AM UTC-4 Edward K. Ream wrote: > On Sat, Jul 8, 2023 at 6:53 AM Thomas Passin <tbp1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> No, I haven't tried it. I'm not even sure I would want to. >> > > I've asked several times, why not? > > Think about how the Windows file explorer works. If you copy a file and >> paste it, it gives the pasted file a name that includes "copy" if there is >> another file with that name in the same directory. >> > > It's an interesting analogy but misleading. A Leo node is more like a > directory than a file. Subnodes matter in this discussion. > > > The question is whether pastes should retain *all* gnxs or none of them. > > > Yes, Leo could copy a tree depending on whether clashes exist. But it's > our intention that matters, not gnx clashes. That was the Aha. > > > Leo's paste-node and paste-retaining-clones commands support either > intention. That should be enough. > > > *Summary* > > > It's easy to reject the proposal. It's unlikely to work as expected. Leo's > existing commands suffice. > > > 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/84412da0-d1e8-4c5d-8752-8a34f293a4bfn%40googlegroups.com.
