Advanced Topics

• Controlling Syntax Coloring
  • Syntax coloring settings
  • Files
  • The colorizer’s inner loop
  • Format of colorizer control files
  • Rule methods
• Writing Plugins
  • Writing Plugins
  • Important security warnings
  • Documenting plugins
  • c ivars & properties
  • Handling events
  • Support for unit testing
• Unit testing with Leo
  • Using @test nodes
  • Using @suite nodes
  • Using @mark-for-unit-tests
  • Test driven development in Leo
  • How the unit test commands work
  • @button timer
  • @button profile
• Debugging with Leo
  • Using g.trace and g.pdb
  • Settings for winpdb
  • Debugging scripts with winpdb
• Leo’s Console Gui
  • System requirements
  • Starting Leo with the console gui
  • Exiting Leo & saving files
  • Navigation and editing
  • Leo key bindings
  • Limitations
  • Broadcasting and listening
  • Developing the cursesGui2 plugin

• A Miscellany of Leo Scripting
• Exploring Leo’s Code Base
• Vim Mode: Theory of Operation
• The Leonine World