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commit 24fcc7e14ec6afd0b65f9b0465097d7766d65498
Author: frlan <frank at frank.uvena.de>
Date: Sun Jun 12 11:07:46 2011 +0200
Started to convert newsletter issue 1 to rst.
Starting with the txt version, this is a version where at least the structure is already fitting.
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-Geany Newsletter
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Geany Newsletter #1
+-------------------
-Volume 1
-CC-BY -- The Geany-Newsletter team
-
-
-Table of Contents
------------------
-
-1 Geany 0.20 has been released
-
-2 Geany-Plugins 0.20 have beenreleased
-2.1 New plugins
-2.1.1 UpdateChecker
-2.1.2 WebHelper
-2.2 Updates & Bugfixes
-2.2.1 GeanyExtraSel
-2.2.2 GeanyGenDoc
-2.2.3 GeanyLaTeX
-2.2.4 TreeBrowser
-
-3 Geany-Development
-3.1 Update to Scintilla 2.22
-3.2 Further patches
-3.2.1 Support for COBOL
-
-4 Plugins
-4.1 New plugins to Geany-Plugins-project
-4.1.1 Tableconvert
-4.1.2 Debugger
-4.1.3 GeanyPG
-
-5 Geany Universe
-5.1 New Mailing List – geany-newsletter-commits
-5.2 New team member – Colomban Wendling
-5.3 Geany local
-5.3.1 Geany at Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2011 (March 19th, 20th)
-
-6 Let us introduce you....
-6.1 Plugin Focus
-6.1.1 File Browser
-6.2 Feature Focus
-6.2.1 Comments formatting
-
-7 Contact
+.. contents::
Editorial
----------
+=========
Welcome to the first Geany newsletter with highlights of the last few weeks
during Geany development and use. This newsletter is not intended to give a
complete overview of Geany news, but is trying to collect the most important
items. Have fun and happy coding!
-1 Geany 0.20 has been released
--------------------------------
+Geany 0.20 has been released
+============================
On January 2011, the 6th version 0.20 of Geany "Disra" was released. As always
the release contained a number of bug fixes as well as improvements and new
features.
Some of the highlights:
- * Improve compatibility with GVfs using GIO to save documents (Alexey
- Antipov).
- * Fix occasional crashes when closing a modified document and choosing
- Save.
- * Reorganize Find in Files dialog and add Files pattern to filter search
- results.
- * Show mimetype icon in sidebar Documents list and notebook popup menu
- (Colomban Wendling).
- * Add per-document indent width setting (Jiri Techet).
- * Fix passing quoted arguments when using ’Send Selection to’. This means
- e.g. sed ’s/\./(dot)/g’ now works.
- * Add alternative color scheme based on Python colors (View-Editor-Color
- Schemes - not all filetypes supported yet).
- * Auto-indent after an HTML/XML line without a closing tag (Eugene
- Arshinov).
- * Add Forth filetype (Thomas Huth).
- * Add Lisp filetype (Mário Silva).
- * Add Erlang filetype (Taylor Venable).
- * Add translations: kk.
- * Update translations: cs, de, en_GB, es, fi, fr, hu, ja, nl, pt, sl, sv,
- tr, zh_CN.
-
-2 Geany-Plugins 0.20 have been released
-----------------------------------------
+* Improve compatibility with GVfs using GIO to save documents (AlexeyAntipov).
+* Fix occasional crashes when closing a modified document and choosingSave.
+* Reorganize Find in Files dialog and add Files pattern to filter searchresults.
+* Show mimetype icon in sidebar Documents list and notebook popup menu (Colomban Wendling).
+* Add per-document indent width setting (Jiri Techet).
+* Fix passing quoted arguments when using ’Send Selection to’. This means e.g. sed ’s/\./(dot)/g’ now works.
+* Add alternative color scheme based on Python colors (View-Editor-ColorSchemes - not all filetypes supported yet).
+* Auto-indent after an HTML/XML line without a closing tag (Eugene Arshinov).
+* Add Forth filetype (Thomas Huth).
+* Add Lisp filetype (Mário Silva).
+* Add Erlang filetype (Taylor Venable).
+* Add translations: kk.
+* Update translations: cs, de, en_GB, es, fi, fr, hu, ja, nl, pt, sl, sv, tr, zh_CN.
+
+Geany-Plugins 0.20 have been released
+=====================================
Shortly after the release of Geany the Geany-Plugins collection was released
with version 0.20. This collection includes a number of useful plugins, not
shipped with Geany itself. This release is the result of about 6 months of
development work and so it has quite a number of changes and some new plugins:
-2.1 New plugins
-================
+New plugins
+^^^^^^^^^^^
-2.1.1 UpdateChecker
-********************
+UpdateChecker
+*************
UpdateChecker implements a check for new releases of Geany and notifies the
user when one is available. It’s based on libsoup and can be configured to
check during startup or on request.
-2.1.2 WebHelper
-****************
+WebHelper
+*********
WebHelper is a plugin that provides some web development facilities, such as a
web page preview and some debugging tools (web inspector). The plugin
implements the following features:
- * A basic web view, allowing the display of any web page (using WebKit);
- * Possible automatic reloading of the web view upon document saving;
- * A web inspector/debugging tool for the web view’s content (including a
- JavaScript console, a viewer and editor of processed HTML and CSS, a
- network usage analysis tool and many more, thanks to WebKit).
+* A basic web view, allowing the display of any web page (using WebKit);
+* Possible automatic reloading of the web view upon document saving;
+* A web inspector/debugging tool for the web view’s content (including a JavaScript console, a viewer and editor of processed HTML and CSS, a network usage analysis tool and many more, thanks to WebKit).
-2.2 Updates & Bugfixes
-=======================
+Updates & Bugfixes
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Also there have been a lot of bugfixes and updates on plugins. For further
details please check the Release notes and/or the ChangeLog of plugins. A few
selected changes are:
-2.2.1 GeanyExtraSel
-********************
+GeanyExtraSel
+*************
* Respect ’Smart’ home key (Geany does now).
* Fixed Scintilla Shift+movement key conversion of rectangle selection.
@@ -129,8 +77,8 @@ selected changes are:
* Per-file column mode.
* Added "Set Anchor", "Select to Anchor" and "Rectangle Select to Anchor".
-2.2.2 GeanyGenDoc
-******************
+GeanyGenDoc
+***********
* Bump dependency on CTPL to 0.3.
* Add a popup menu for common actions in the documentation type selector.
@@ -142,90 +90,89 @@ selected changes are:
* Don’t copy the system configuration file to the user’s one when hitting
"Edit Current Language Configuration", only write it when saving changes.
-2.2.3 GeanyLaTeX
-*****************
+GeanyLaTeX
+**********
* Move LaTeX-menu to a separate menu inside Geany main menu.
* Add a feature to auto-capitalize letters on typing the beginning of a
sentence.
* Add a way to put an icon for LaTeX-wizard into Geany’s main toolbar.
- * Added a dialog for inserting BibTeX references based on available *.bib-
- files.
+ * Added a dialog for inserting BibTeX references based on available \*.bib- files.
-2.2.4 TreeBrowser
-******************
+TreeBrowser
+***********
* Added bookmarks support.
* Added keybindings support.
* Added mime type icons in the tree.
* Many bugfixes and code improvements.
-3 Geany-Development
---------------------
+Geany-Development
+=================
After the 0.20 release the development has slowed down a bit but nevertheless,
some changes did happen:
-3.1 Update to Scintilla 2.22
-=============================
+Update to Scintilla 2.22
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Right after the release of Geany 0.20 with Subversion r5521 an updated version
of Scintilla was been merged from the unstable branch into trunk. Geany trunk
is now running with version 2.22 of the Scintilla editing component.
-3.2 Further patches
-====================
+Further patches
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-3.2.1 Support for COBOL
-************************
+Support for COBOL
+*****************
At the end of January 2011 a patch was committed to Geany trunk which enabled
COBOL support inside Geany. Now it’s possible to use features like syntax
highlighting for this language.
-4 Plugins
-----------
+Plugins
+=======
It was a quite active time right after the 0.20 release on the plugin
development side.
-4.1 New plugins to Geany-Plugins-project
-=========================================
+New plugins to Geany-Plugins-project
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-4.1.1 Tableconvert
-******************+
+Tableconvert
+************
After a little chaos with naming, the new plugin Tableconvert was added to the
development version of the Geany-Plugins. It offers a way to convert tab
separated lists (e.g. imported from Microsoft Excel or LibreOffice Calc) into a
table. Currently the plugin supports HTML and LATEX tables.
-4.1.2 Debugger
-***************
+Debugger
+********
The Debugger plugin has added a second binding for gdb to the Geany-Plugins
project.
-4.1.3 GeanyPG
-**************
+GeanyPG
+*******
With GeanyPG Hans Alves submitted a new plugin to geany-plugins project which
adds support for signing, encrypting and decryption of text files opened in
Geany.
-5 Geany Universe
------------------
+Geany Universe
+==============
-5.1 New Mailing List – geany-newsletter-commits
-================================================
+New Mailing List – geany-newsletter-commits
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
When the geany-newsletter project was started, a new commit mailing was
created. The goal of this list is to notify all interested people whenever a
new commit has taken place inside the geany-newsletter git repository. As
always you can find the list via http://www.geany.org/Support/MailingList
-5.2 New team member – Colomban Wendling
-========================================
+New team member – Colomban Wendling
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In March 2011, Colomban Wendling joined the Geany core team. Over the last few
years he has submitted a lot of patches. He did a great job during the last
@@ -233,11 +180,11 @@ month - e.g. building up a tagmanager-in-memory patchset as well as providing a
big number of patches and providing support on both the mailing list as well as
IRC. Welcome Colomban!
-5.3 Geany local
-================
+Geany local
+^^^^^^^^^^^
-5.3.1 Geany at Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2011 (March 19th, 20th)
-************************************************************
+Geany at Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2011 (March 19th, 20th)
+*****************************************************
On the coming weekend (around March 19th, 20th) there will be a local Linux and
FOSS convention in Chemnitz, Germany. Some of the Geany guys will be around and
@@ -246,17 +193,17 @@ chat. You will find us next to the Xfce guys.
Details for this convention can be find on their homepage at http://
chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2011/
-6 Let us introduce you....
----------------------------
+Let us introduce you....
+========================
This section is intended to introduce particular plugins or features on a
regular basis.
-6.1 Plugin Focus
-=================
+Plugin Focus
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
-6.1.1 File Browser
-*******************
+File Browser
+************
The File Browser plugins adds to the sidebar a tab with which you can browser
files and folders. By default it shows the contents of the folder containing
@@ -273,15 +220,15 @@ using any of the options available at the very top of the tab:
Also at the top of the tab is the Filter input box in which you can enter a
file specification of those files you want to appear in the File Browser. The
-file specifications must be quite simple - e.g. g*.py or *.xml. Regular
+file specifications must be quite simple - e.g. g\*.py or \*.xml. Regular
expressions are not supported. To clear the filter either click on the icon at
the right of the Filter input box or empty the Filter box and press [Enter].
-6.2 Feature Focus
-==================
+Feature Focus
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-6.2.1 Comments formatting
-**************************
+Comments formatting
+*******************
When writing source code or in a markup language, it’s often necessary to mark
one or more lines as a comment. Geany offers several functions from the Edit
@@ -302,8 +249,8 @@ the content of what you’re editing instead of having to worry about getting th
comment markers right. This is precisely Geany’s aim: to make coding easier and
faster without getting in your way.
-7 Contact
-----------
+Contact
+=======
If you like to contribute to the newsletter, make a request or complaint about
content please contact frank at geany.org via email.
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