Re: Leo - An outliner worth you time to look at

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Posted by ckester
2002-08-29 22:06:38

“Clone” doesn’t seem to be the right way to describe this interesting feature, since that word suggests a copy which has an independent life of its own after it is made.

I think a more apt way to describe this would be to say the node is “linked” when it appears more than once in the outline. That’s the word used in Windows to describe copies which reflect subsequent updates to the thing copied.

The interesting thing about this feature is that, unlike a Windows link, destroying the original node does not break the linked nodes.

The original node and the linked nodes are distinguishable only by their position in the outline (they have different parents and/or siblings). Otherwise they behave as if they were a single node which can be edited wherever it appears, and which continues to exist as long as it appears in at least one place.

Very interesting indeed.

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