[Geany-Devel] A direction for Geany

[Lex Trotman]

On 12 November 2013 03:51, Steven Blatnick <steve8track at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  One of the things I've enjoyed about switching from gedit to geany is
> that geany typically doesn't use nearly as much memory and loads large
> files easily.  Now, I don't know if that's related to Scintilla vs
> GtkSourceView, but really long documents, particularly with long lines,
> freeze gedit up.
>
> At first I was sceptical of using a Scintilla-based editor from my
> GtkSourceView, but geany has grown on me.
>
> With any direction change, I would hope most of all that the basics I know
> and love about geany remain untouched:
>
>    1. Relatively easy to read source code.
>    2. Fast and light weight.  Feature-rich without the bloat.
>    3. Plugins can do virtually anything.  (I found gedit plugins to be a
>    bit more difficult, especially since the editor was in a different language
>    than the python plugins, although that could be more my inexperience with
>    the languages at the time I started.)
>     4. Consistent behavior across languages, like a good power-editor.
>    One concern about language specific code mentioned in this thread and other
>    threads is if the editor will still handle things consistently.
>    5. Support for many languages.  This is probably the main reason I
>    don't use something like Eclipse, because switching editors for the various
>    languages that I have to program in is annoying.
>
> Anyway, whatever you decide, please don't take such a change in direction
> as to gnome things up for us.
>
> That's my 2 cents, if they are worth anything since most of my
> contributions so far are still small.
>
Hi Steve,

Thanks for that, it is definitely worth while re-iterating the basic tenets
of "the Geany way" that make up a large part of the value it provides to
its users.  If any design decisions threaten these, then they need to
provide a commensurate benefit or be rejected.

Cheers
Lex


>  Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 11/11/2013 08:45 AM, Pavel Roschin wrote:
>
>  5. Drop Scintilla and use GtkSourceView. I'll just enumerate the reasons
> that come to mind, in no particular order:
>
>  But does this mean that some Sci-features are going to pass away? E.g. scintilla
> supports multiple selections and, gap buffer, multiple gaps, inline styling
> (e.g. spellcheck, mark words) that I never seen in gedit/mousepad.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Pavel Roschin aka RPG
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