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HaveF HaveF

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Sep 7, 2023, 12:33:52 AM9/7/23
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https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor/history.html

Leo's history is intriguing. I thoroughly enjoyed reading everything except the change log section. Leo's history goes beyond the mere development of LEO; it encompasses a journey of discovery, enlightenment, and abstract transformation. I look forward to delving further into this reflective piece in the future. Thank you, Edward. If someone  haven't had the chance to read this document, I have included a few excerpts for your enjoyment:

- I saw clearly that typesetting, no matter how well done, is no substitute for explicit structure.
- much of the design work is not reflected in the code, because improved design often eliminated code entirely.
- Furthermore, I could make @doc directive optional if the body pane started in “code mode”. But this meant that plain body text could become a program! This was an amazing discovery.
- “We can use the following convention to determine where putDocPart has inserted line breaks: A line in a doc part is followed by an inserted newline if and only if the newline is preceded by whitespace. This is an elegant convention, and is essentially invisible to the user.
- That’s the nature of big Aha’s: they obliterate previous ways of thought so completely that it’s hard to remember the time before the Aha.


Edward K. Ream

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Sep 7, 2023, 8:28:02 AM9/7/23
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Thanks for the summary :-)

Edward

Edward K. Ream

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Sep 9, 2023, 9:00:25 AM9/9/23
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On Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 11:33:52 PM UTC-5 iamap...@gmail.com wrote:
https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor/history.html

Leo's history is intriguing. I thoroughly enjoyed reading everything except the change log section.

I have revised this history to include events following @clean. The result in on Leo's website. See the link above.

I have kept the new entries brief and have removed some extraneous details (logs) :-)

Edward

HaveF HaveF

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Sep 9, 2023, 7:50:35 PM9/9/23
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I have kept the new entries brief and have removed some extraneous details (logs) :-)
Thanks for the update, Edward.

History is not history only, it is also a clue for what's important commands which readers can't miss, like `cff`, `git diff` etc. :-D

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HaveF

Edward K. Ream

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Sep 10, 2023, 1:54:04 AM9/10/23
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On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 6:50 PM HaveF HaveF <iamap...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have kept the new entries brief and have removed some extraneous details (logs) :-)
Thanks for the update, Edward.

You're welcome.

History is not history only, it is also a clue for what's important commands which readers can't miss, like `cff`, `git diff` etc. :-D

Exactly. I enjoyed the work of distilling all the release notes.

Edward
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