Wanted: vim and emacs (org mode) champions

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Edward K. Ream

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Jun 21, 2019, 9:51:37 AM6/21/19
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Recent discussions about vim and org mode highlight the importance of people who use other editors.

Imo, one of Leo's most important ongoing tasks is to support easy interactions between Leo and other editors.

As I see it, the role of a champion is as follows:

1. To point out where Leo falls short with regard to some other editor.

2. To do easy fixes/experiments regarding proposed improvements.

For example, Terry's recent work with using Leo's bridge inside vim.

Candidates

Obvious candidates are Terry and Kent for vim, and gar for emacs org mode.

Any volunteers?  I promise, this will not be an odious assignment.

Edward

jkn

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Jun 21, 2019, 10:15:25 AM6/21/19
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I should volunteer for this, for the somewhat rare CRiSP editor I use and have occasionally banged on about here.

To recap: CRiSP is a multiplatform editor with its own C-like macro language and many nice features.

Its default keybindings are like the old BRIEF editor, and these are pretty hardwired to my brain. This is one
reason I stick to CRiSP as my 'main' editor. It's not just a matter of different key-bindings, there are some features which
need a bit of coding (eg. wrt. 'lossage' to get right, and I have not made a concerted effort with this.

CRiSP has a 'server' mode which can be used to open up filies within it; this would be a good area where having a bridge
between the two programs would be useful.

So, I'll volunteer for at least *something* along these lines, if that helps...

    Cheers
    Jon N


Edward K. Ream

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Jun 21, 2019, 10:23:09 AM6/21/19
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 9:15 AM jkn <jkn...@nicorp.f9.co.uk> wrote:


I should volunteer for this, for the somewhat rare CRiSP editor I use and have occasionally banged on about here.

Thanks. 

CRiSP has a 'server' mode which can be used to open up filies within it; this would be a good area where having a bridge between the two programs would be useful.

I've been thinking that client/server interactions could be an important way to integrate Leo with other editors.

So, I'll volunteer for at least *something* along these lines, if that helps...

Yes, it helps.  Your first task, should you choose to accept it, will be to open one or more new issues for any features that you would like to see added to Leo.

Edward

Jacob MacDonald

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Jun 21, 2019, 2:49:59 PM6/21/19
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I enjoy Emacs and Python, and have been meaning to contribute to Leo
for a minute now. It seems like requests about Org mode are pretty
common, and I keep some data in Org mode in a format which would be
better suited to a proper tree editor. Perhaps I'll start
experimenting there.
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Edward K. Ream

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Jun 21, 2019, 4:17:45 PM6/21/19
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 1:50 PM Jacob MacDonald <jacc...@gmail.com> wrote:
I enjoy Emacs and Python, and have been meaning to contribute to Leo
for a minute now. It seems like requests about Org mode are pretty
common, and I keep some data in Org mode in a format which would be
better suited to a proper tree editor. Perhaps I'll start
experimenting there.

Thanks for this.  Let us know your progress.

Edward

Edward K. Ream

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Jun 22, 2019, 8:28:18 AM6/22/19
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On Friday, June 21, 2019 at 8:51:37 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote:

Recent discussions about vim and org mode highlight the importance of people who use other editors.

Info item #1226 discusses program champions.  #910: summarizes this and all other dev info items.

Edward
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