Re: A note to new users

2015-09-21 Thread john lunzer
I hadn't previously discovered these. Thanks for bringing them to my attention. If I find myself in *need* of using either vim or Emacs in the future I will absolutely take a look at these. They look like they would certainly be helpful for navigation. Speedbar looks to be closer to the way

Re: A note to new users

2015-09-21 Thread Marcel Franke
john lunzer wrote: The lack of outlining feels like a handicap at best and trying to program > nearly blind at worst. > Did you try the code-outline-plugins of vim or emacs? For vim it's "tagbar", for emacs i think it was "speedbar". Folding is another useful way for (inline-)outlining of

Re: [again] Leo 5.0-final in MAC lost font control?

2015-09-21 Thread 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 01:30:18 +0800 "Zoom.Quiet" wrote: > the log is : > Leo Log Window > Leo 5.0-final, build 20141124101406, Mon Nov 24 10:14:06 CST 2014 Hi - I think font / settings / theme stuff has changed since Leo 5.0-final - is it possible for you to upgrade to the

Re: A note to new users

2015-09-21 Thread 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 14:13:18 -0500 "Edward K. Ream" wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 2:11 AM, Marcel Franke < > kugelfischtemp...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > john lunzer wrote: > > > > The lack of outlining feels like a handicap at best and trying to > > program > >>

Re: A note to new users

2015-09-21 Thread john lunzer
>From my short time testing out sr-speedbar (which keeps the speedbar in the original window) speedbar works opposite of Leo. It builds up an outline from parsing directory tree and source code of each file. This is immensely useful for navigation but it lacks the ability to specify arbitrary

A vital project

2015-09-21 Thread Edward K. Ream
Sadly, the world has largely ignored the Limits to Growth report. Here is a history of the world's (lack of) response to that report. I highly recommend it. On a happier note, I can also

Re: A note to new users

2015-09-21 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 2:11 AM, Marcel Franke < kugelfischtemp...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > john lunzer wrote: > > The lack of outlining feels like a handicap at best and trying to program >> nearly blind at worst. >> > > Did you try the code-outline-plugins of vim or emacs? For vim it's >

Re: ENB: Looking for my next big project

2015-09-21 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 11:11:52 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: TL;DR: I am unlikely to be interested enough in type checking for Python. > I'm looking for a problem that a) seems impossible and b) hasn't been significantly studied. [big snip] > Over the last few years I have

Re: ENB: Looking for my next big project

2015-09-21 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Monday, September 21, 2015 at 1:55:27 PM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > type hinting/checking could be a mixed blessing, as discussed here . The link is wrong. The correct link is https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-April/139221.html