[Geany-devel] Writing a plugin, not sure what to do with it

[Meyer]

Hi,

Thanks very much for the input!  I've pasted an updated version here [1]
which should implement your suggestions (assuming I understand them
correctly).

Cheers
Alex

[1] http://pastebin.com/WJXYQm1N

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Meyer <3m.meyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was looking for some programming to do recently and found this feature
> > request:
> >
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3383201&group_id=153444&atid=787794
> > .  I tried writing a plugin which implements the feature, and it seems to
> > work, but now I'm not sure what to do with it now.  I've pasted the code
> > here: http://pastebin.com/549Dazj0.  My main concerns are that it seems
> very
> > hack-ish, and seems too simple to be a full plugin.
> >
> > Any advice regarding the code, what to do with it, etc. would be much
> > appreciated.
>
> Hi,
>
> Nice simple plugin, but very fixed in operation, I have a couple of
> suggestions.
>
> 1. Use keybindings rather than the editor notify. This lets you catch
> the key before it is inserted in Scintilla and allows the user to set
> the trigger keycode (for me the actual characters would not be
> appropriate, but <ctrl><shift>char would be, but different users would
> have different use-cases).  See for eg addons plugin for how to use
> keybindings.
> 2. Group the changes you make into one undo group, see the scintilla docs.
> 3. Add a preferences dialog to allow the opening and the respective
> closing character(s) to be set for each trigger keycode.  It would of
> course default to your current pairs but would allow updating for
> other languages and multi character sequences.  See again for eg
> addons.
> 4. Have 1 and 3 allow up to say eight codes/pairs to be defined.
>
> The plugins infrastructure is about to get moved to Github and some
> new processes are being defined, see
>
> http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c4EC29977.1030802%40frank.uvena.de%3e
> so keep an eye on that thread and you can be the first new plugin
> using the new process :)
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alex
> >
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