Re: Updating docs
That would be a great help to link to other references (like Emacs or Vim) that use similar terminology and solve similar problems. No sense in 'reinventing the wheel'. Rob.. On Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 11:00:49 AM UTC-4, Edward K. Ream wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 4:35 PM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor leo-e...@googlegroups.com javascript: wrote: On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 14:18:23 -0700 (PDT) Largo84 lar...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: I'm really glad the docs are being updated. I know that's a monumental task. I only use a fraction of Leo's commands, mostly because I don't even know what they're supposed to accomplish. A few examples: Thanks, Terry, for your discussion of the rectangle commands. I've added an item in the doc's to-do list for 5.1b1. I wonder, perhaps there should be more links to the Emacs docs :-) Tangle all @root nodes in the selected outline. The tangle and untangle command have been removed from the docs. @root is now officially in limbo. It exists, but only as an Easter Egg for compatibility with old code. There are absolutely no advantages to using @root, and many disadvantages. Ah. As I write this, I see way forward. I'll change the docstring for the tangle* and untangle* commands to say that @root and all related commands are deprecated. 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 http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Updating docs
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 4:35 PM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor leo-editor@googlegroups.com wrote: On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 14:18:23 -0700 (PDT) Largo84 larg...@gmail.com wrote: I'm really glad the docs are being updated. I know that's a monumental task. I only use a fraction of Leo's commands, mostly because I don't even know what they're supposed to accomplish. A few examples: Thanks, Terry, for your discussion of the rectangle commands. I've added an item in the doc's to-do list for 5.1b1. I wonder, perhaps there should be more links to the Emacs docs :-) Tangle all @root nodes in the selected outline. The tangle and untangle command have been removed from the docs. @root is now officially in limbo. It exists, but only as an Easter Egg for compatibility with old code. There are absolutely no advantages to using @root, and many disadvantages. Ah. As I write this, I see way forward. I'll change the docstring for the tangle* and untangle* commands to say that @root and all related commands are deprecated. 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 http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Updating docs
On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 14:18:23 -0700 (PDT) Largo84 larg...@gmail.com wrote: I'm really glad the docs are being updated. I know that's a monumental task. I only use a fraction of Leo's commands, mostly because I don't even know what they're supposed to accomplish. A few examples: 1) There are seven 'Rectangle' commands. Running help-for-command I know you want the docs. to be more complete, not just answers for your questions, but putting this text in Leo: I'm really glad the docs are being updated. I know that's a monumental task. I only use a fraction of Leo's commands, mostly because I don't even know what they're supposed to accomplish. A few examples: Placing the cursor immediately before the first I, holding shift and moving it to immediately before the word examples selects a zero width rectangle from the beginning to the end of the selection (zero width because the selection starts and ends in the same column. Then running rectangle-string [largo]spaceenter yields: [largo] I'm really glad the docs are being updated. I know that's a [largo] monumental task. I only use a fraction of Leo's commands, mostly [largo] because I don't even know what they're supposed to accomplish. A few [largo] examples: i.e. the insertion of a rectangle of text. Basically emulates the Emacs commands: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Rectangles.html Tangle all @root nodes in the selected outline. Knuth's literate programming which combines detailed narrative documentation of the code with the code itself uses all kinds of tangle and weave related terms to refer to the process of producing code from the combined texts, or docs., etc. I'm not really sure that literate programming has much hold these days, even though it inspired Leo initially. It was good for languages like TeX that are hard to read quickly, but modern languages can be fairly easy to read, if you pick good variable names etc., and if properly structured can usually be sufficiently documented with the languages own features (docstrings) and systems like Sphinx. (Any or all of this could be wrong, but I think it was Knuth and this is what it's about). That said http://yihui.name/knitr/ is basically literate programming for R, and very useful for documenting analysis to make it repeatable. Cheers -Terry -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
