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I wrote Python in Leo for a few months 7 (?) years ago. The best use case I found was for bug tracking, you could make a URL node to the ticket and then clone a
by grayrest 12y ago
I wrote Python in Leo for a few months 7 (?) years ago. The best use case I found was for bug tracking, you could make a URL node to the ticket and then clone all the relevant pieces of code under it to have everything in the same place. The problem is that outlines required sigils in the source code at the time and that makes sharing a repo with somebody else difficult. The other problem is that it's not Vim.
I expect some version of Leo's outline concept to be a banner feature in some IDE in the future. The idea is good but it's execution in Leo is workable but clunky.
- marrs 12y agoThe other problem is that it's not Vim. I also have this problem when trying out any other text editor. It's actually quite annoying because every other text editor I try is often much better than Vim at everything it does except editing text. I'm holding out for someone with more time and patience than me to write Vimim.
- andrewl 12y agoThere's a line on the home page that says "Leo works well with emacs, xemacs, vim, and ipython." And they have a page about using Leo with other programs, which does have some details about Vim and Emacs: http://leoeditor.com/leoandotherprograms.html http://leoeditor.com/leoandotherprograms.html But I haven't tried any of it yet.
- marrs 12y agoThanks, I did see that actually. Obviously I'll have to try before having an opinion on how well it works. I did try sublime (an editor I really like) with the vi extension and found that, although support was comprehensive, there were enough differences for me to ultimately give up. It would be great if you could integrate Vim itself (or any text editor) with Leo, similar to how Vim integrates with Mutt. In any case, it's worthy of at least a play because it has some very interesting functionality.