Part 8d, the last of stage 8, and with it everything on DESIGN.md's v1
list.
Connect mode (C): the cursor goes to another node, a dashed arrow in the
visual color follows it, and Enter links the two; then the cursor goes
back to where C was typed (the user's pick). d removes the line between
them (a branch is cut, and the child comes loose), > puts the node under
the other one, and <Space> a, l, c, s and t style the line as you watch,
making it when it isn't there yet. Everything connect mode changes is one
undo group, and Esc takes it back with History::cancel, which leaves
nothing to redo. From visual mode every selected node connects, and the
line pickers go back to connect mode when they close.
Portals show their document live, from a cache of what each document
file holds (open documents from their buffers, the others from their
files, looked at every second): the root's title, its color and how many
nodes it has, or ? when the document isn't there. Enter or gf goes
through, as a jump, and the pane's breadcrumb starts with the documents
it came through. <Space>p types :portal (the user's pick): a path as :e
takes it, or the title of a new document. Backlinks are put right
whenever a document is opened or saved; the root shows how many, the
Note view lists them, gu goes up to them (the user's pick) and
:backlinks lists them.
File names follow the root's title: when it changed, the next save
renames the file (-2 when the name is taken; a folder's default document
keeps its name), and the portals pointing at it, its backlinks in the
documents it leads to, the recent documents, the capital marks and the
jump lists follow. A portal whose file was moved by hand finds its
document in that folder by uid. Portals in a register keep full paths,
so a pasted portal leads to the same document from any folder.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The rest of vim, on nodes. Visual mode takes in what lies between where
it started and the cursor: on the canvas, every node the rectangle from
one end's box to the other's touches; in the outline and the Note view,
the nodes in between in reading order. V takes whole branches, Ctrl+click
and Ctrl+drag pick with the mouse, and the operators take exactly what's
selected: d, y, > and <, M, and the pickers on every node at once.
Registers now hold text or nodes, so yy, dd and x keep what they take and
p, P and ]p paste it, layout and links included. "+ is the system
clipboard through arboard: nodes go there as Markdown in the user's
format (## headings, a --- tag list, the body), and come back whole while
the clipboard still holds them. clipboard = "unnamedplus" makes plain
yanks use it, as in vim.
. repeats the last change made with keys, with the text typed after it.
/ opens a Telescope-style search: fuzzy matches over titles, tags and
bodies, best first, with the note of the one you're on beside them; n
and N go on with it, and :find searches straight away. Each pane keeps a
jump list for Ctrl-o and Ctrl-i that crosses documents and reopens closed
ones. Capital marks lead into any document and, like the small ones, are
kept in memory.ron. gd follows a cross-link, and :marks, :jumps and
:registers list what they hold.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The config folder now sets everything: config.toml the settings (now
also `theme` and `editor`), keys.toml the keys, and themes/<name>.toml
the theme, laid over the built-in one, so a theme only needs what it
changes. Each file is applied again a second after it's saved; a
mistake only drops its own line, and the status bar says what's wrong,
naming the file.
:config lists the three files with their folder; Enter hands the
terminal to your editor (the editor setting, $VISUAL, $EDITOR, else
notepad or vi), writing the file first if it's missing, with every
option at its default behind a #, explained (keys.toml lists every
command by name). :theme switches themes until cumulus quits, like
:set.
The built-in theme gets the named styles the user picked, each also put
on by its tag: question (yellow, dashed), important (red, thick) and done
(gray, its title faded); and link styles blocks and supports, whose
label shows on a link without its own. Themes can also set [modes],
[node], [root], [branch] and [link].
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The playground becomes app::App, and `cumulus` runs it: the main loop
with terminal setup and a panic hook, and the startup rules (./ideas.cum,
else ~/ideas.cum, made the first time; files and folders by name;
`cumulus new`; --paths).
The documents' files:
- autosave a second after the latest change (`:set noautosave` for
vim-style :w), [+] in the document bar for unsaved changes; quitting
saves first; without autosave :q refuses, :q! drops, ZZ saves first;
- a file changed outside cumulus is read again as an undo step; with
unsaved changes here too, cumulus asks which to keep; a file with a
mistake in it holds autosave until it's fixed or :w saves over it; a
deleted one waits for :w; nothing is reloaded under an edit;
- the day's first save backs the file up to the data folder (30 days);
- a document open in another cumulus is read-only ([RO]) until that one
lets go: OS file locks in the data folder, so a crash leaves none;
- where you left off (cursor, zoom, scroll), the recent documents (now
in the documents picker) and the command history, in memory.ron;
- :e (alone: read it again; ! drops changes), :new, :bd, :w, :wa, :x,
:qa, <Space>i for :in, and :set for every setting. glyphs=ascii now
reaches the frames and bars too, not just the canvas and outline.
Stage 8 comes in four parts with a commit each (the user's choice); 8b
is the settings files. The example is now a playground running the app
on copies of the sample documents in a temporary folder, and the
end-to-end tests moved to src/app/tests.rs, with tests for the files.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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