Leo 5.4-b1 released
Edward K. Ream
edreamleo at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 05:19:12 EDT 2016
Leo <http://leoeditor.com/> 5.4-b1 is now available on SourceForge
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/files/Leo/>. Leo is an IDE, a PIM and
and an outliner.
*The highlights of Leo 5.4*
- Added clone-find commands, a new way to use Leo.
- The clone-find and tag-all-children commands unify clones and tags.
- The new pyflakes and flake8 make it possible to check files from
within Leo.
- Added importers for freemind, mindjet, json and coffeescript files.
- Rewrote the javascript importer. It can optionally generate section
references.
- Imported files can optionally contain section references.
- The viewrendered plugin supports @pyplot nodes.
- Improved the mod_http plugin.
- @chapter trees need no longer be children of @chapters nodes.
- All known bugs have been fixed.
*Leo is*:
- A fully-featured IDE, with Emacs-like commands.
- An outliner. Everything in Leo is an outline.
- A Personal Information Manager.
- A browser with a memory.
- A powerful scripting environment.
- A tool for studying other people's code.
- Extensible via a simple plugin architecture.
- A tool that plays well with IPython, vim and xemacs.
- Written in 100% pure Python
- Compatible with Python 2.6 and above or Python 3.0 and above.
- A tool with an inspiring and active community.
*Leo's unique features*:
- Always-present, persistent, outline structure.
- Leo's underlying data is a Directed Acyclic Graph.
- Clones create multiple views of an outline.
- A simple, powerful, outline-oriented Python API.
- Scripts and programs can be composed from outlines.
- Importers convert flat text into outlines.
- Scripts have full access to all of Leo's sources.
- Commands that act on outline structure.
Example: the rst3 command converts outlines to reStructuredText.
- @test and @suite scripts create unit tests automatically.
- @button scripts apply scripts to outline data.
- Outline-oriented directives.
Simulating these features in vim, Emacs or Eclipse is possible,
just as it is possible to simulate Python in assembly language...
*Links*
- Leo's home page <http://leoeditor.com>
- Documentation <http://leoeditor.com/leo_toc.html>
- Tutorials <http://leoeditor.com/tutorial.html>
- Video tutorials <http://leoeditor.com/screencasts.html>
- Forum <http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor>
- Download <http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/files/>
- Leo on GitHub <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor>
- What people are saying about Leo
<http://leoeditor.com/testimonials.html>
- A web page that displays .leo files
<http://leoeditor.com/load-leo.html>
- More links <http://leoeditor.com/leoLinks.html>
Edward
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