ed.opml

status: Looking at Sakai's OPML feed
My IO subscriptions
Some history - and testing a subtree
  My Instant Outlining learning curve
    Editor system testing
      Basics
        The icon will appear when there is an RSS file available.
        The impossibly small editing window maximises with a double-click on its title bar
        Use ctrl ` to see the HTML and edit it in the editor.
        Support materials
        Coffee mug - easy now to paste the provided HTML
        It's easy to drag outline content from section to section, with a little arrow showing where it would appear next.
        To add a link in the blog editor, have the URL on clipboard, select the text to link, and use menu path HTML > Add link...
        To add an image the link is http://hosting.opml.org/0147153/blog/decorations/image.jpg
        How to change the location of the data
      Synchronise - The procedure is simple. Just don't have the outliner updating both machines at the same time!
      System-wide problems that went away
        Sorry! There was an error: Can't read stream because TCP/IP error code 10060 - Connection timed out. The error was detected by Frontier 9.0.1 in mainResponder.respond. Webmaster: dave@scripting.com. Time: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 18:01:43 GMT. In a very short time, Dave has it all under control.
    Buddies
      When my "Buddies" window alerts me that somebody has updated their outline, it opens up but I don't find any easy way to tell which part of the outline changed. I don't want to have to read the entire outline to find the two lines that changed. This may become important if outlines get large.
        The outline is opened with the same branches expanded as when it was saved - thanks Tom.
        This does seem to work for embedded subtrees also
Messages to others
  Cori
    Tools that survive code refresh
      Have you tried the menu path Tools > New Tool... ? It prompts you to specify a file name and this will then be a new file of code independent of opm.root. You can define menu entries, etc.., in there. I created one called EdTools and copied in it your synchronisation code. I now have a menu path Tools > EdTools > Synchronise that will then give me the date prompt and execute the synchronisation. I also think it survives code refresh unscathed.
    Synchronisation
      Thanks for looking at the synchronisation thing. I tested it and it seems to work as I imagine you intended. I am now typing this on the other computer and then I'll synch back to the original.
      OK I switched back to the original machine and easily sychronised the changes from the copy using my version of your code. A breeze!
    User node
      As with Kosso (see his IO 04/08/2005; 17:43:54) I cannot open my outline from yours. I think he has diagnosed correctly.
      8/4/05; 3:30:17 PM Central Time In your test example I can expand the node with the "up-arrow" icon but not the one with the "buddy" icon.
  Tom
    IO vs IM
      The public aspect of IO is definitely a plus if you want initially unknown readers to be able to think about the subject under discussion.
      As you say, it's not clear how "lurkers" initially let the other participants know they have something to contribute.
      Using several branches in one window works fine the kind of brief exchanges we are having now. I was musing about really instant outline exchanges that might happen in real time. If a dialogue grows long, it may become tedious scrolling repeatedly up and down alternately to the right place. With (say) four participants in real time, I think the effort of this might overwhelm the benefits of group thinking.
  Noah
    Here is an example of a link. You can create a link like this in any OPML file you edit, not just your IO.
Currently testing...
  I used the editor to edit the text part of a hyperlink and it removed the /a tag from the end.
Experimentation
Community
  Yahoo Newbies Group
  Everything
  Kosso
  Eichin's issues list (Mac-oriented)
  In other blogs...
Publicly visible OPML
  Sakai
  Explore the subtree below this node to see part of my OPML blog as an outline.
    August 2nd
    August 1st
    July 31st
    July 30th
  Weather
    Alabama weather
    Texas weather
  Texas politics
  My blog