Leo Editor Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Ask HN: What do you think about literate programming for handover/legacy code?

  What are your experiences with literate programming for handover of code? I am thinking of tools like noweb (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noweb), LEO (http://leoeditor.com/) org-mode (http://cachestocaches.com/2018/6/org-literate-programming/), scribble/lp2 (https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/lp.html#%28part._scribble_lp2_.Language%29), My experience so far is that it can be a fantastic tool for documenting... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• How to hoist the current method/function?

  I know what folding is, that's just not what I want. I want to completely hide everything that is not related to the current function. For a while, I used http://leoeditor.com/ where I could have every function/method as a node in a tree, with the node body containing just that. Looking for a way to achieve the same in vim if possible. Source: over 1 year ago

• Organice: An implementation of Org mode without the dependency of Emacs

  The lack of good node/graph based APIs for Org Mode is my beef as well. When you compare it with the APIs of the Leo Editor[1], Org pales in comparison. Manipulation that is trivial in the Leo Editor can be quite a pain in Org mode. [1] https://leoeditor.com/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Obsidian Dataview: Turn Obsidian Vault into a database which you can query from

  > What outliners do you know which allow end-users to feed their data into formulas for processing it without using general-purpose programming languages? Bit of a pointless constraint, the talk is about outliners, not no-code-datamangment. Which tool today does this even offer on a useful level? But you can look at leo editor (https://leoeditor.com), which is active for 20+ years, fully scriptable and extendable.... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• LeoVue

  Leo is a pretty amazing project: Edward K. Ream treats it as his life's work, it seems to me, and his energy on the mailing lists, constantly thinking in public, is an inspiration. https://leoeditor.com/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Why LSP?

  Hmm maybe you mean: - Programming based on fragments, not documents (e.g. LEO https://leoeditor.com/) - Live programming (e.g. Smalltalk environments) - ... Where certain actions are not available, e.g. a PL geared towards speech recognition may not support "hover". - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Is it bad practice to start with Jupyter Notebooks?

  There's also https://leoeditor.com/ where you can have a tree of nodes and execute any of them. Source: about 2 years ago

• The project with a single 11,000-line code file

  I had this problem until I found an editor that had outlining as it's core design paradigm. Now, with the outline always visible, it's _really_ easy to navigate any length file. Unfortunately, at one point I got so used to navigating with the outline that I ended up making a 1500 line function in C (I was an even worse C programmer then than I am now). Because of the outline, I could read and follow it easily, but... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Literate programming is much more than just commenting code

  I found this years ago: http://leoeditor.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Can someone explain to me why Scrivener is regarded so highly?

  Before Scrivener I was writing using mostly pure outliners, like Tinderbox, LEO Editor, the now defunct Hog Bay Notebook (later called Mori) and the classic MORE-alike, NeO. Before that I was writing in raw LaTeX using Vim. Source: over 2 years ago

• If you're into 'Literate Programming', the Leo Editor can now be used as an extension for VSCode!

  Going to https://leoeditor.com/ I see this:. Source: over 2 years ago

• Looking for word processor/writing program that can add tags to chunks of text to create searchable lists in-document on demand.

  Emacs Org-Mode can likely do something like this but there is a learning curve. Http://leoeditor.com/ seems similar but with a more graphic interface. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Why nobody rewrites Emacs in Python?

  If it's important to you for your editor to be implemented in Python, maybe take a look at Leo? I hear it's similar to Emacs in some ways. Source: about 3 years ago