Leo 5.3-b1 released
Edward K. Ream
edreamleo at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 06:40:56 EDT 2016
Leo <http://leoeditor.com/> 5.3-b1 is now available on SourceForge
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/files/Leo/>. Leo is a PIM, an IDE and
an outliner.
*The highlights of Leo 5.3*
- Leo now supports Jupyter Notebook (.ipynb) files.
- @chapter is now allowed anywhere. No need for @chapters.
- Faster spell checking.
- The rst3 command supports @rst-table.
- The show-invisibles command now uses native Qt characters.
- Dozens of other improvements and bug fixes.
*Leo is*:
- 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.
- A fully-featured IDE, with emacs-like commands.
- 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.
*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 or Emacs 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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Edward K. Ream: edreamleo at gmail.com Leo: http://leoeditor.com/
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