<newsletter:master> A a first version of Feature focus and Plugin focus provided by Russell Dickenson

[Frank Lanitz]

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Author: Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de>
Date:   Wed Mar 9 23:56:11 2011 +0100

    A a first version of Feature focus and Plugin focus provided by Russell Dickenson

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 Details for this convetion you can find on their homepage at \url
 {http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2011/}
 
+\section{Let us introduce you....}
+
+This section is intended to introduce particular plugins or single
+feature on a regular basis.
+
+\subsection{Plugin Focus}
+\subsubsection{File Browser}
+
+The \textbf{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 the first file opened in Geany.
+You can navigate to other drives and folders using any of the
+options available at the very top of the tab:
+
+\textbf{Up:} Navigates to one folder higher in the file system.
+
+\textbf{Home:} Navigates to your Home folder.
+
+\textbf{Set path from document:} Sets the active folder to the one containing the current active document.
+
+\textbf{Folder input box:} Here you can enter any path you want to see in the File Browser. As you type the
+path it will offer autocompletion of the folder's name.
+
+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 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].
+
+
+
+\subsection{Feature Focus}
+
+\subsubsection{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 > Format sub-menu which make this
+very easy:
+
+\begin{itemize}
+	\item Comment Line(s)
+	\item Uncomment Line(s)
+	\item Toggle Line Commentation
+\end{itemize}
+
+To use these options on a single line, put the cursor on that line
+and select the menu option. To use them on a block of code, select
+the whole block then select the menu option. The Toggle Line
+Commentation menu option will, as its name suggests, add comment
+markers to a normal line/section of code and, if the line/section is
+already a comment, remove the comment markers. What's great about
+these options is that they insert or remove the comment markers
+applicable to the type of file being edited. This means that you can
+focus on the content of what you're editing instead of having to
+worry about getting the comment markers right. This is precisely
+Geany's aim: to make coding easier and faster without getting in
+your way.
+
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