Re: LeoJS needs to be its own thing

2024-07-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
: Thank you *Miles Fidelman* for that observation : It is not silly at all!! You are right, although it is the first thing I show in the 'LeoJs features' video, it should be the first (or almost first) thing i write about at the top of the documentation!! ...

Re: LeoJS needs to be its own thing

2024-07-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
Silly observation - but... LeoJS looks awfully interesting, but nowhere on the github site is a simple "click here" link to download and run it as a webapp. There's the code, the video, but nothing that says "click here" (as there is with, say TiddlyWiki).  Or am I

Re: Interesting Quote On Communication Via The Program

2022-10-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
ed no comments at all.  I am not one of them. Personally, I'm a big proponent of writing the documentation first. Then filling it in with code.  Makes life a lot easier for all concerned - particularly those who have to deploy & maintain big systems. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is

Re: 23:15 video, "A Tour of Acme (2012)" by Russ Cox

2020-07-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
er some of the more obvious era-specific references). Surprised?  I mean, it sure seems like recent generations of developers just keep making the same old mistakes, and then ultimately reinventing the same stuff that folks did back in the day.  Not a profession that learns from the past. Mile

Re: Discusss: use Discourse instead of mailing list

2019-08-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
able archive.  My advice:  Don't. Just don't. (spoken as someone who hosts a bunch of email lists - Sympa is my platform of choice) Miles Fidelman On 8/30/19 11:02 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote: On Friday, August 30, 2019 at 9:11:48 AM UTC-5, Chris George wrote: I am currently loo

Re: Atom might be Leo's future

2018-02-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
try Shift-Ctrl-P :-) The atom editor deserves serious consideration as a "hosting platform" for Leo's technology, for at least the following reasons: And here I was hoping you meant Atom & AtomPub - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(Web_standard) Miles Fide

Re: OT: Time for a Linux laptop

2017-04-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Well, personally, I recommend Mac laptops - tremendous hardware, and they're BSD unix underneath. And it's easy enough to run pretty much any Linux or BSD distro under a hypervisor - at near native speed. I typically have Parallels running, with a Windows VM running (for Quicken and Visio), k

Re: a good summary of leo internals? - thanks1

2015-04-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
Slightly belated thanks! Mile Fidelman Edward K. Ream wrote: On Sunday, March 22, 2015 at 1:26:59 PM UTC-5, Miles Fidelman wrote: I was kind of hoping that there was more than just the code itself, along the lines of this developer documentation for TiddlyWiki: I've update

Re: a good summary of leo internals?

2015-03-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Edward K. Ream wrote: On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 10:38:11 PM UTC-5, Miles Fidelman wrote: > I don't suppose somebody can point me to a good summary of Leo's internals - file/database structure, overall architecture, etc.? Start here <http://leoeditor.com/the

a good summary of leo internals?

2015-03-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
. It sure would be helpful to find some good documentation of what goes on under the hood. Thanks very much, Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Why not just use git on Linux??

2014-11-23 Thread Miles Fidelman
t of the stuff running on our servers is installed the old-fashioned way (wget...; gunzip; tar; ./configure; make; make install) - some software is much better at keeping itself up-to-date (e.g., Wordpress) Your mileage may vary. Miles Fidelman Edward -- You received this message because yo

Re: Scripts vs. macros

2013-11-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
rences. 4. Leo script can be embedded in @button nodes. 5. Leo scripts can be embedded in @test nodes. 6. Leo scripts can create external files, a special case of: 7. Leo scripts can do anything Python can do. I could be wrong, but I believe that emacs Lisp-based scripts can do all that as well.

Re: Why Leo isn't more popular

2013-10-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Edward K. Ream wrote: Maybe, but there is a tantalizing possibility. I prototyped Leo in about two hours, using the MORE outliner as a prototype, and inventing @others in the process. (I was already deeply involved with sections and section references.) Gee, what I'd give for an up-to-da

Re: Why Leo isn't more popular

2013-09-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
Terry Brown wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:26:37 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet: Leo has pretty much written off Mac users, and close to written off large chunks of Linux users. Interesting, I know there's issues with Mac., which I think

Re: Why Leo isn't more popular

2013-09-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
duf...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, 30 September 2013 17:26:37 UTC+2, Miles Fidelman wrote: I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet: Leo has pretty much written off Mac users, and close to written off large chunks of Linux users. Sure, you CAN install and get it to wo

Re: Why Leo isn't more popular

2013-09-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
some instructions on how to use Homebrew (and does one really want to use a Ruby based installer to install something written in Python?). Somehow, one gets just a little squirrely contemplating a Python based IDE that seems to have been targeted at a Windows environment. That alone raises som

Re: Any suggestions to make me DB literate?

2013-03-29 Thread Miles Fidelman
n particular (e.g., neo4J), object oriented datbases, text databases, semantic databases (e.g., RDF triplestores), but if you're munging huge amounts of data - be it business transactions or sensor records, tables, a la RDBMS (or spreadsheets) turn out to be both conceptually and c

distributed collaboration tool

2012-08-16 Thread Miles Fidelman
ce for O'Reilly Radar, at: http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/08/smart-notebooks-for-linking-virtual-teams-across-the-net.html I'd welcome comments, support, likes, tweets, blogs, ... Thank you very much, Miles Fidelman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google