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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 05.06.2013 13:46, schrieb Thrawn:<br>
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<td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">Hi, folks.<br>
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Lex, thanks for your comments. I have heard before about
GeanyLua's future being uncertain, and I did email the
list suggesting that I would be willing to be an emergency
backup maintainer. Ie I don't generally have the time, but
given a choice between fixing a severe problem and losing
the plugin, I'd step up.<br>
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Just tonight I've uploaded another script to the Geany
Wiki, for surrounding the current selection with brackets,
tags, etc. That fulfils another item from the plugin
wishlist. It took about 40 lines (including comments and
debug lines) and 15 minutes.<br>
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I strongly urge that GeanyLua be retained. I think that it
and GeanyPy are the way of the future for plugin
development, and since GeanyPy isn't available
precompiled, GeanyLua is the only out-of-the-box candidate
for developing a useful feature (that would normally
involve a plugin) in an hour or less. The documentation is
clear; the API is simple but effective; there's no
boilerplate (no import statements, no class declarations,
no metadata, just code); deployment is just a matter of
copying the script into the geanylua directory and
restarting/rescanning; and it integrates nicely with the
keybinding system.<br>
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Anyone who wants to develop a plugin, or wishes for a
feature that some other editor has, should consider
GeanyLua. It might not do what they need, but if it does,
they'll be able to do it within an afternoon. I'm already
maintaining 6 different Lua-powered features (some of
which involve multiple scripts), with a 7th to be uploaded
soon, and it's easy.</td>
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I believe GeanyLua is nice, but it still needs a maintainer :) You
could be the one!<br>
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Best regards<br>
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