I think this makes sense, and has been addressed a couple of times.
First a terminology issue: the body pane edits the body of a node, what you're
looking for is a pane which lets you edit the bodies (and maybe headlines) of
multiple nodes at once, which would a pane with a different name, distinct from
the body pane. I'm sure you don't care what it's called :-)
The closest to exactly what you want would be the notebook.py plugin, here's
its doc string:
QML NotebookEdit several nodes at once, in a pannable "notebook" view.Use
<Alt-x>nb-<tab> to see the list of commands.
But I don't know if it's still working.
For a view only version of what you want, some iterations of the
viewrendered[23]? plugin have supported recursive rendering, which would
basically display a bunch of separate nodes as one long text.
If you can try the notebook.py plug in and report back, that would be a good
start. Ville wrote it, which isn't really relevant, I just want to see if he's
still reading this forum ;-)
Cheers -Terry
From: Arjan <[email protected]>
To: leo-editor <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 4, 2016 12:43 PM
Subject: Leo as Personal Information Manager: multiple nodes in the body pane?
Hi! I'm getting started with Leo as a personal information manager, and I like
it a lot. The option to have clones of notes which stay in sync is very
powerful.
I do have a usability problem with it: I very often have small sections, e.g. a
paragraph, that I want to be able to reuse somewhere else. This means I have to
create many small nodes, meaning I loose the overview of the whole section (say
a chapter, or whatever larger container of information). Of course I have an
overview of the structure (the chapter's child nodes) in the outline pane, but
that doesn't give me an overview of the actual text in it. For something like a
chapter I want to be able to see and edit all the text in it, and just scroll
through all of it. For example, I might want to write something in one of the
child nodes while looking at the contents of other adjacent nodes. Or
copy-paste things between them, which now requires switching between the child
nodes.
So I was wondering: would it be possible to have multiple nodes in the body
pane? If so, there could perhaps be a setting per node saying whether all its
child nodes should be rendered (and be editable) in the body pane.
Does that make any sense? Or are there other ways to someting like this? I'm
curious to hear your thoughts!--
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