Re: Why Leo isn't more popular

What an enormously long and interesting thread! Thanks for the sub-thread on using Leo for plain ol' writing. It rings true for me. Leo doesn't leverage much of my prior muscle memory, and that leads me away from it, and once away it takes awhile to return. This is still true even though I've been

Re: Why Leo isn't more popular

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Matt Wilkie wrote: > Consequently I spend a lot of in-Leo time in a state of confusion, often > unsure whether I'm trying to learn programming or python or Leo or more > about the actual problem I'm started out trying to solve this morning. :) an alternate way

Re: Improving reformat-paragraph

I would *love* a reformat paragraph command that doesn't break docstings or comments! On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote: > This command was a major advance when one of Leo's users created it. > Don't remember who it was. However, it's limitations are becoming apparent > as I

Re: LeoPIM - recurring events library?

might be worth seeing what Taskcoach uses. On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Terry Brown wrote: > Anyone know of a python, preferably, light-weight, preferably, library > for managing recurring events? I searched a while ago and found > nothing except Chandler's, which was too embedded in Chandl

Re: Proposed workaround to refresh-from-disk problems

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote: > BTW, there is always a workaround to problems with refresh-from-disk. > Simply save the .leo file and reload. The save will be safe for never-read > @ nodes, provided that you say "no" when asked whether you want to > overwrite the existin

Re: Programatically editing RTF

pandoc understands RTF (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/index.html), though maybe not in the way you need (?) -- 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-

Re: Programatically editing RTF

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Matt Wilkie wrote: > pandoc understands RTF (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/index.html), > though maybe not in the way you need (?) > Wow. This a new world to me. Thanks for the link! Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go

Re: Improving reformat-paragraph

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Matt Wilkie wrote: > I would *love* a reformat paragraph command that doesn't break docstings > or comments! > It will happen for b2 at the latest. EKR -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubsc

Re: Check out Leo's new TOC

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Viktor Ransmayr wrote: > The new TOC looks really good. > > Based on this new structure I would propose a few more enhancements. > > 1) Consolidate the top-level nodes 'Downloading Leo', 'Installing Leo' and > 'Running Leo' into a single top-level node. > That wo

Re: 'Strange' problem with the rst3 command

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Viktor Ransmayr wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I encountered a strange problem, when creating the HTML file from a rST > file via the rst3 command. > > Here is the log: > [ snip] > > ### VR: First invocation of 'rst3' > > stylesheet not found > ... > Traceback (mo

Re: Check out Leo's new theory of operation

On Friday, October 11, 2013 4:40:48 PM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > It's at: http://leoeditor.com/theory.html > For the first time ever, it concentrates on the highest-level view of the code. Actually, the *intent* of the chapter has no changed: it no longer focuses on the knowledge you ne

Re: Check out Leo's new theory of operation

On Friday, October 11, 2013 4:40:48 PM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > Actually, the *intent* of the chapter has no changed... A confusing typo. I meant: Actually, the *intent* of the chapter *has* changed. EKR -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo

Re: Check out Leo's new theory of operation

On Friday, October 11, 2013 4:40:48 PM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > It's at: http://leoeditor.com/theory.html > > This chapter is intended for people like Terry and Ville. > What a difference a day makes. The chapter is now called "Exploring Leo's Code Base". The chapter has a totally diff

Re: LeoPIM - recurring events library?

Just stumbled upon dateutil yesterday: http://labix.org/python-dateutil (see the module dateutil.rrule) -->Jake On 10/12/2013 3:56 AM, Matt Wilkie wrote: might be worth seeing what Taskcoach uses. On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Terry Brown > wrote: Anyo

Re: Check out Leo's new theory of operation

On 10/12/2013 7:59 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote: When I get there, it often feels like somebody else wrote it: I don't remember anything about the actual code. The old adage of "six months pass and the code is foreign to you" holds. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

Re: A 3-part organization for tutorials

>>@edward: The value of the 3-part organization is that quite a few people might use Leo as a PIM, or to write documents, without being programmers. Hi there, I am one of those apparently rare freaks. I've been using Leo for several years now for all but programming. Yes, it has been a pain to

Re: New plugin: rss.py - Leo is now a primitive RSS reader

This plugin has been updated as of rev 6139 to make it more configurable. Here's the relevant section of the docstring: Configuration Settings == This plugin is configured with the following @settings: @string rss-date-format --- Format strin