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Hello.<br>
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I'm just introducing myself and explaining why I chose to add myself
to the devel list today, as well as providing a patch.<br>
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I'm a software developer who, if you can believe it, uses gedit as
my primary IDE. (You may have seen me recently in the IRC channel.)<br>
<br>
After struggling with the division between gedit 2, gedit 3, and
pluma (MATE), I decided to look elsewhere for a light-weight IDE.<br>
<br>
My initial impressions of geany are:<br>
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1. It runs with about half the RAM of gedit2 on my box.<br>
2. The code seems easier to get in to.<br>
3. It seems to be heading the direction I like and has the look and
feel I want.<br>
4. Looks like any feature I miss from gedit I could contribute
myself or write a plugin.<br>
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So here is my attempt to get involved:<br>
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I've attached a patch that adds <i>Backspace</i> to the keyboard
events for the file browser so you can go up a directory quicker.
It's something I noticed gedit had and I hope others may find it
more convenient than previous Alt+Up key combination (which still is
there, this is just in addition).<br>
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Sorry if I'm doing anything out of step, and I hope I can contribute
:-)<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Steven Blatnick<br>
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