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if anyone wants to checkout the ppa the links below, it auto packages geanypy
from git, I also packages some of my own plugins in this ppa which i may
get put into the geany plugin project one day when GeanyPY is part of
the plugin list.<br>
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Anyway follow the link below it builds for a few versions of ubuntu, but
i have never tested it with debian but i see no reason it would not
work other than i may need to adjust the required versions of libraries.<br>
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</div><a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Eoly/+archive/geany" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~oly/+archive/geany</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Steven Blatnick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve8track@yahoo.com" target="_blank">steve8track@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">
<span>My intent behind external-tools is to essentially imitate the functionality of gEdit's External Tools plugin. You can try that out to see what I mean, or better yet, try my plugin out at </span><a href="https://github.com/sblatnick/geany-plugins" style="font-size:12pt" target="_blank">https://github.com/sblatnick/geany-plugins</a> in the "external-tools" branch. I've added a make file in the directory, so you can just run "make && make install" and then enable it.</div>
<div style="font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">
Here are some example uses, some of which I've already used in gEdit:</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">1. Build code with compiling output in the bottom panel. Yes, I know that there are already build tools, but this makes building as simple as adding the command line code just as you would in the terminal, rather than figuring out all of the separate fields.</div>
<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">
2. Replace currently highlighted text. When trying to add localization to a JSP, I found it convenient to write a little macro that changed some.text.string to <%=SOME_TEXT_STRING%> with a press of a button. This allows me to write perl scripts or bash scripts to replace any text.</div>
<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">
3. Integrate database operations. You could highlight the select query and have the output displayed in a table below.</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">4. Open an external tool such as meld to compare the current file against git or svn.</div>
<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">
5. Open relevant files. For example, I may have a .jsp open and need to open a similarly named .js and .java file related to it. Basically I can script opening of the files not yet open as compared to the current
one.</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">
6. Run custom searching like ack-grep or tools to clean up files like html.</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">Basically it is very flexible without having to learn very much about the inner workings of geany like making a plugin would. Best of all, you can use any language you
want, so long as the file knows to execute it.</div><div style="font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">
Another advantage is that you can add scripts and shortcuts easily, with a UI, rather than having to set up the directory structure and format yourself.</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">Variables are passed to the script through the environment. Here is a good example of a script you could add to my plugin
to see the variables:</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">
<div style="background-color:transparent">#!/bin/bash</div><div style="background-color:transparent">echo "GEANY_LINE_NUMBER=$GEANY_LINE_NUMBER"</div><div style="background-color:transparent">echo "GEANY_SELECTION=$GEANY_SELECTION"</div>
<div style="background-color:transparent">echo "GEANY_SELECTED_LINE=$GEANY_SELECTED_LINE"</div><div style="background-color:transparent">echo "GEANY_FILE_PATH=$GEANY_FILE_PATH"</div><div style="background-color:transparent">
echo "GEANY_FILE_MIME_TYPE=$GEANY_FILE_MIME_TYPE"</div><div style="background-color:transparent">echo
"GEANY_FILE_TYPE_NAME=$GEANY_FILE_TYPE_NAME"</div><div style="background-color:transparent">echo "GEANY_PROJECT_DIRECTORY=$GEANY_PROJECT_DIRECTORY"</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">Furthermore, I think it easier to have a single interface for building, Custom Commands, and any other functionality that could use this structure.</div>
<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">
I plan on adding (if I can figure out how :-) the ability to have links in the text
output for opening files who's paths are printed.</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">
Of course, it's a plugin, so that allows it to be installed only if they want it.</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">
I hope this helps,</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">
Steve</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">
PS: I have two other plugins I'd love to see get adopted that are in my github repo in their own branches:</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:bold">quick-search</span>: incremental search that is quicker than the ones already in geany by on a single keystroke adding to the highlighted entries and the search field
any currently highlighted text. It also doesn't occupy toolbar space, as it, like gedit's incremental search, is a non-decorated hovering window in the top left corner of the editor. I actually like this plugin's behavior better than gedit's because it doesn't retain a list of historical values, so you don't get it auto-completing when you don't want it.</div>
<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">
<span style="font-weight:bold">quick-opener</span>: Open dialog that searches files in the project directory by name and allows for quick opening. This is like the lua plugin mentioned in the mailing list, but it filters as you type. It's configurable to skip unwanted directories and file
names.</div></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif"><br></div> <div style="font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">
<div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Thrawn <<a href="mailto:shell_layer-geany@yahoo.com.au" target="_blank">shell_layer-geany@yahoo.com.au</a>><div class="im">
<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Geany development list <<a href="mailto:devel@lists.geany.org" target="_blank">devel@lists.geany.org</a>> <br> </div><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, June 7, 2013 10:54 PM<div class="im">
<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Geany-Devel] Lua script vs the plugin wishlist<br> </div></font> </div><div><div class="h5"> <div><br>Hi, folks. Thanks for your feedback.<br><br>I'm only a novice
with C, but I'll take a look sometime at the GeanyLua source and see whether I think I could fix something broken. Will let the list know what I decide.<br><br>@Steven: Interesting to hear about your External Tools project, because several of my Lua scripts are basically to give easy integration with external tools. What are its specific advantages compared to GeanyLua and GeanyPy?<br>
<br>> I think that[1] wishlist is pretty out of date, FWIW. Maybe<br>> we should start one on the main wiki[2] again?<br><br>Yeah, it is out of date, but still, these are things that someone wanted at some point. Seems to me like a good starting point. Feel free to update it, though. I believe a bunch of the items already exist in Geany core or a plugin, so they could be cleaned up.<br>
<br>> > Advanced interaction with Geany's chrome is out,<br>> <br>> Assuming chrome means the GUI, I think there's Lua bindings<br>> for GTK+ and from what I've read,
it's pretty<br>> straightforward binding C structures in Lua. If you can get<br>> a hold of the GeanyMainWidgets structure and/or the<br>> ui_lookup_object function from Lua, you should be golden.<br><br>Sadly, I can't see anything in the GeanyLua API that would give me either of those :/ Maybe that's something I can look for in the GeanyLua code.<br>
<br>> Oliver has GeanyPy packages on his PPA[3] for Ubuntu,<br>> presumably the .debs would work for other Debian-based<br>> distros as well.<br><br>Good to know. I might give that another look at some point.<br>
<br>I do still like the simplicity of the GeanyLua API, but of course, the complexity of the GeanyPy API is the price of the power.<br><br>> For the build process, I'm pretty sure it<br>> shouldn't require 100MB of dependencies to compile (unless<br>
> you've never installed any build tools yet, like compiler,<br>> autotools, etc).<br><br>OK, tried 'sudo apt-get install
python python-dev python-gtk2 python-gtk2-dev' on another machine, and this time it wanted to download 57MB, or 41MB without installing recommendations. Better, but still quite a bit, when you consider the size of the main Geany package. And then you still need to download the actual plugin source, compile and install it, and you won't be able to manage it via your package manager.<br>
<br>I work as a programmer, so none of that is a big deal for me. But it's enough for me to prefer GeanyLua for jobs that it can handle. And there are enough of those to keep me busy for a while.<br><br>> Anyway, cool that you gave GeanyPy a look, sad that it got<br>
> overlooked for another alternative :) It's a weird<br>> situation, no uses it because no uses it[4] :)<br><br>Well, if it were available from the default repositories, I'd probably use it. Does it actually have to be part of geany-plugins for that?<br>
<br>You could try porting some of my scripts to
GeanyPy if you want. They're GPL and all quite short. Have you tried them out?<br><br>> [4] Lex, before you say "because it's not in Geany-Plugins",<br>> patches welcome on integrating GeanyPy's complex build<br>
> systems into both of Geany-Plugin's even more complex build<br>> systems, oh and (non-trivial) upgrading to GTK3 and<br>> Gobject-Introspection-based PyGTK for GTK3 :)<br><br>:s No wonder GeanyLua is in peril. Sounds like you have a hard road ahead for GeanyPy, but I do sincerely wish it well, and will keep my eye on news of it.<br>
<br>And I have taken note of the fact that GeanyPy crumbles yet another of the few advantages of Gedit, the ability to integrate a Python console.<br><br>Will email the list again soon. I'm working on a Lua script to give Vim keybindings. It's actually quite simple! There are a lot of keys to do, that's all.<br>
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